I've always wanted to travel to our three territories. I feel they aren't appreciated enough in the grand scheme of things.
The Yukon is road-accessible, but it's a 22-hour drive from YYC and I don't know if I'm up for that yet.
The Northwest Territories are also road-accessible, and fairly cheap to fly to, as well, starting from ~500 dollars.
However, where I really want to go is Nunavut, and specifically, Iqaluit. It's the smallest capital city in the country - and, I believe, in North America. However, there are no roads to Iqaluit, and the cheapest flight I can find starts at $3000. One-way.
To put that in perspective, I could fly to Tokyo and back three times for that price.
Why is it so expensive to fly to Nunavut? Why can't you drive there? Has anyone here ever travelled to Nunavut? How did you get there? How much was the cost? What was it like?
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You're pretty much out of luck according to this website - http://wikitravel.org/en/Nunavut The only way in to Iqaluit is to fly.
I was looking on Google Maps and it's quite shocking how once you start going north in many provinces (SK, MB, ON, QC) there pretty much are no roads. So many communities are just completely cut off from the rest of Canada, including the-in-the-news-recently Attawapiskat.
You would've thought at some stage in Canada's history, in a patriotic fervour some roads would've been built to link these places. Say 1967. Or 2017?
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I lived in Kugluktuk (Coppermine) for a couple of years, as a kid. I would LOVE to take my family there to show them. I have very fond memories of living there.
You're pretty much out of luck according to this website - http://wikitravel.org/en/Nunavut The only way in to Iqaluit is to fly.
I was looking on Google Maps and it's quite shocking how once you start going north in many provinces (SK, MB, ON, QC) there pretty much are no roads. So many communities are just completely cut off from the rest of Canada, including the-in-the-news-recently Attawapiskat.
You would've thought at some stage in Canada's history, in a patriotic fervour some roads would've been built to link these places. Say 1967. Or 2017?
I went to Nunavut on business a few years ago. The flights are expensive, partly because they don't have a whole lot of people on them. Even travel by flight can be kind of iffy - I was flying from Rankin Inlet to Cape Dorset in the summer and they decided they couldn't land due to fog and carried on to Iqualuit; I was then given a choice of staying on the plane for a return flight with a 50/50 chance of landing, but if it couldn't I'd be stuck in Rankin Inlet (which is a bit of a dive) for 3 days.
It is beautiful up there, but you have to be prepared to pay a lot of money to get around - not to mention food costs far more than it does here. You also have to be prepared to change your plans based on weather.
Just looked on google and it looks like the flight prices drop in half after May 19. By coincidence I saw a climbing Baffin Island book at MEC on Friday and now I want to go. Auyuittuq National Park has some interesting mountains. Underappreciated place for sure.
This stunt was filmed there, the only James Bond scene shot in Canada:
You would've thought at some stage in Canada's history, in a patriotic fervour some roads would've been built to link these places. Say 1967. Or 2017?
We barely have adequate quality highways between major cities sometimes (ever driven out to Saskatoon?), so I'm not really surprised there are no roads at all in the most remote parts of Canada. It's a big effin country.
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But the Canadian Shield constitutes all of Quebec. And most of Ontario.
Most people in Quebec live in the St. Lawrence Valley or the Eastern Townships which are fertile agriculture regions and definitely not part of the Canadian Shield.
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Oh yeah? Explain Quebec.
First of all- Iqaluit it on an island, so building a road going there would require a bridge over 100 km long. Said bridge would also need to accommodate shipping traffic going beneath it.
Then you get into the population densities. Quebec and Ontario have about 1/4 and 1/3 of the population of Canada, so it's more cost effective to build a road that serves 10's or 100's of thousands of people; as opposed to hundreds.
Or you could use an airplane. At $3000 one way it is a fraction of the cost, and several times faster.
First of all- Iqaluit it on an island, so building a road going there would require a bridge over 100 km long. Said bridge would also need to accommodate shipping traffic going beneath it.
This sounds awesome! Let's do that!
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