It was in the half-unpacked mess that (Eira Thomas) lost a pair of earrings set with two-carat diamonds from the Diavik mine. She’s pretty sure her dog Melville ate them.
Life up North
The Twin Otter Goes Back into Production!
My favorite bush plane is being manufactured by Viking Air Ltd., 22 years after the last 19 passenger, two engine workhorse rolled off the production line, according to The rebirth
Smuggling in the Far North
My first full-time job was with the Northwest Territories Department of Public Works and Highways. (There were only two so-called highways in the early 80s, neither paved. You were more likely
Queen of Diamonds
I began my civil engineering career in Yellowknife, the tiny capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. At that time, 25 years ago, employment at the territorial government and two gold mines