http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...coldest-winters.html

Interesting pictures of Inuit life.

The first picture is very cool! Thx for the link.

Fascinating. Happier then or now?

Very cool!

Loved the pics but the captions where dreadful.

Exactly why were the captions dreadful?

Eskimo is not a bad word. Forget the political correctness and look at the content.

Notice the first picture. Perhaps the Texas heart shot needs to be renamed the Eskimo heart shot?

The whole article is dreadfully written, but the photos are fascinating.
If anyone is interested in Inuit life, find a copy of this book: "Kabloona." You will love it.

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Forget the political correctness and look at the content.

That, is not possible in our modern world. I think it is a great piece of history, and that is just exactly what it is, History, and should be viewed as such. Different time - different manner and wording than today.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
The whole article is dreadfully written, but the photos are fascinating.
If anyone is interested in Inuit life, find a copy of this book: "Kabloona." You will love it.

"Kabloona" = good. In it you meet a young Scotsman about to join the Hudson Bay Co. You find mention of the same man (grown old) in a later book "Ten Years in the Arctic" by Duncan Pryde. The latter book is spellbinding. I tried to find the author (Duncan Pryde), but he had moved to the Isle of Whyte, and didn't reply to my letter. I later learned he had died. Read "Kabloona", and then read Pryde's book. Holler at me if you want a copy...it's here somewhere.

Very cool pictures, must have been a hell of a hard life......but they all look pretty happy

Conifer and all, after you've read "drunken Duncan"'s book, look for "An Arctic Man" by Ernie Lyall.

I was close friends of both,and Ernie wrote his book to counter some of the "BS & Bologna" (as he described it) in Duncan's book.

Both are good reading and gave a good view of the Canadian arctic in the 60's & early 70's. Both are long gone but I still have their memories and think of evenings learning the language from Ernie's wife!