A little tour in town before I put some more juicier story. Start with Nakasuk elementary school, build when the window wasn’t popular at the time around here. I personally find that it look like a bunker. As like the Inuksuk high school, but blue.
Now let us continue with the Wal-Mart of the north, North Mart. A lot of people say that it belongs to Wal-Mart, I can’t confirm. Here, the prices have nothing to do with the prices down south, simply multiply by 2 all the prices and you will not be very far from the truth. Here everything is very expensive, the grocery, the rent, the gas, …
Here we enter Iqaluit downtown area, nearly 8000 peoples live around here, we can find the CIBC and RBC, the post office and several other store. You will notice the wood post close to the street, they are there to protect the pedestrians from the cars and ski-doo, here we don’t have sidewalks.
Here it’s the busiest place in town, with its 4 stops which can be change by a traffic light, a roundabout, a yield or a tunnel. By the way, here there is no traffic light, some yield and a lot of stops. In the morning, at noon and in the evening, we can take more than 10 minutes to pass there.
We have a lot of office building, the federal and provincial government is here in Iqaluit, quite normal for the capital on the Nunavut.
We have around here a lot of different religion, here we have the catholic church, funny, their adress is 911. In Iqaluit we have the catholics, anglicans, Jehova witness, muslims, boudhists, pentecôtists, baha’is, mormons, chamanists and some that I didn’t know of at the moment.
This place is the City Hall, Fire house, the by-law office (police) and the old arena, really the only one that is functionnal, they have a new one, but they never use it because they had problem with the structure of the building.
This nice building is the new court house, they keep the name old court house for the old one, but at the old court house, it’s only office place now.
This building you can see the Artic College, the last step before going to Ottawa or anywhere else for university.
Here is the iqaluit oil power plant, it doesn’t seems clean, who knows.
The OPD (Out Patient Departement), they call it OPD around here, we can say hospital, on the right you have the old section call now the clinic.
Joamie elementary school, recently rebuild after a fire. With more windows and a nice view on Iqaluit.
Une photo du cœur de la ville d’Iqaluit à l’autre extrémité de la ville, les réservoirs d’essence et d’huile qui permet de survivre pendant toute l’année. Étant sur une île au milieu de nulle part, notre seul moyens de ravitaillement pour l’huile et l’essence est le bateau. L’avion sert à l’année pour les marchandises et surtout quand la glace recouvre la baie de Frobisher.
A picture of the heart of the town of Iqaluit on the other side of the city, the oil and fuel tanks which make it possible to survive all year long. Living on an island in the middle of nowhere, the only mean of supply is the boat for the oil and fuel. The plane is used all year long for the goods and especially when the ice recovers the Frobisher Bay.