Winnipeg sits at the meeting point of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, a location that has shaped its role as a gathering place for thousands of years. Long before it became a modern city, the area was central to Indigenous trade networks, a legacy that remains visible today through institutions like The Forks and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Arctic Bay is a small Inuit community on the northern coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, situated beside Adams Sound in a landscape of mountains, sea ice, tundra, and rocky shoreline. The community is surrounded by low Arctic terrain and lies within a region known for long periods of winter darkness, seasonal sea ice, and cool summers.