David Venn

Lytton, British Columbia, like many villages, is rich with lore and spirited characters. In 1858, a Nlaka’pamux chief named Cexpen’nthlEm negotiated a treaty with invading American gold miners. Not long after, the ranchers Joe and Catherine Watkinson had the first of their eleven children, whose many descendants still call the place home. After the Second World…

Whit Fraser opens True North Rising with the 1970 trial of an Inuk man. Adam Tootalik, the accused, listened — confused, maybe terrified — as lawyers debated in a foreign language whether he had broken a law he never knew existed. The seasoned hunter had been party to the killing of three polar…

How surely, in some future day, when the memory of it shall have lost its vividness, shall we half believe we have seen it in a wonderful dream, but never with waking eyes!— Mark Twain Rain and fog were still there that Saturday morning not long ago; they had arrived two weeks…

I smelled fuel in my tap water eight days after a few people posted on the Iqaluit PSA Facebook page that something was wrong. It was a Sunday afternoon in early October, and I was getting ready for a two-hour hike along the Apex Trail. As I filled my Nalgene bottle, I caught a distinct, nauseating…