

GUEST POST. The Cannery Kid: Ice Cream Party
It was a beautiful early summer Sunday at North Pacific Cannery on the Skeena River. Sundays were often dull for a ten-year-old. It was...

Dr. Gerald Philippson MD


The Cannery Kid: Never a dull moment as a Cannery Kid
Living out on a river several kms from a hospital was in itself a challenge for my parents. My mother was a modern women and had learned...

Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: Sunday, a Chance to Explore.
Working at the cannery was not a Monday to Friday kind of job It was more 24/7. However on Sunday my dad did his best to come up with an...

Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: The Company Store
Like all small villages at the time, the company store was the hub of activity. The store was down the boardwalk from the house and it...

Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: Making New Cannery Friends
Our first summer out at the cannery was the year I turned 9. As luck would have it there were lots of girls my age that lived out there...

Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid: Summer Cannery Kid
Our visits to the cannery would change in the years to follow as Dad would take us out for adventures in the off season. One of my...

Sue Madill


The Cannery Kid
Not many of us get to see the home we lived in as a child become a museum, North Pacific Cannery, where I spent much of my childhood,...

Sue Madill


Things I have eaten in Tuk
Part of travelling is eating the local cuisine. Maybe things you've never even heard of or thought you would/could ever eat. Since I've...

Hannah Madill


Upcoming New Blogger!
As spring turns to summer and I start counting down to Portugal, we've got some more exciting stories coming up. My high school chum...

Hannah Madill


Hiking up to the DEW Line/NWS (IMAGE HEAVY)
Sorry I've been so MIA. I did this great hike around Tuk and up to the DEW line and then proceeded to get a flu bug and spend the next...

Hannah Madill


2 months left in Tuk, What would you like to see?! (Also a brief Edmonton)
Hello! So I arrived back in Tuk on Friday after a 3 day journey (Edmonton-Whitehorse. Whitehorse-Inuvik. Inuvik-Tuk) to wonderful food...

Hannah Madill


China 2009 Pt. 2
Presented with minimal edits from August 1st, 2009. Please remember that I was 15. WARNING: VERY IMAGE HEAVY. It was a great trip. I...

Hannah Madill


China 2009 pt. 1
So once upon a time, in 2009, I went to China with my dad. I blogged about it on my now purged and defunct livejournal, but I saved the...

Hannah Madill


Reindeer Crossing and back to Edmonton!!
Ooh boy has it been a wild ride…. I’m trying to find a way to write about the last two months in a positive uplifting way without...

Hannah Madill


Sun Dawgs yo!
Yesterday I was just hanging out, maxing, relaxing all cool, watching the new Evil Dead with Mike and Aman and getting ready to blow...

Hannah Madill


#Stranded
The road has been closed for a week now. The blizzards have been wild. The winds got up to 90km/hr in Tuk. Today (Monday) I was finally...

Hannah Madill


Dog Sledding
So yesterday was amazing. We left the initial cabins and half of us went dog sledding and half snowmobiling on little Bravos. I started...

Hannah Madill


Beginning of the Inuvik Adventure
Hello! I have had quite the adventure. So to start things off, I am effectively homeless! Super fun right? Sunday I was home, my house...

Hannah Madill


Apology and Glove Making.
My phone broke so I don't have any pictures to share. And I'm sick so I don't really have any stories to share that aren't school...

Hannah Madill


The Skies
Long ago I lived in the mountains. It was beautiful and I never knew how beautiful the skies could be. When I moved to Alberta,...

Hannah Madill