Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun
The borderline between myth and reality in Canada’s North September 2011
A decade ago, I was camping on the shores of Atlin Lake, tucked in the north-western corner of British Columbia, just outside the sleepy, eponymous town that was founded after gold was discovered in Pine Creek in 1898. This remote area of glacier-blanketed mountains and vast wilderness is the site of the last great gold rush in Canadian…