NWT: Surviving the North The story of the Eskimo dog

When the migration of Inuit occurred, the Tuli aboriginal culture used working dogs to pull their sleds and locate sealbreathing holes. We visit Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to learn how the Eskimo dog breed, known as Qimmiq, was preserved, meet a prospector, artist who discovered the oldest rock in the world, and discover that living in the north during the Gold Rush was no picnic. For more information visit and check out episode, 51 in the Railway Adventures across Ca