Iqaluit is very much one of the 'big-cities' of the North. It has 7800 people living there! Throw a traditional name on it and foreigners automatically think it's some shanty town with a Hudson's Bay trading post and a row of igloo's ��......
Aren't about 2,000 of those people "Guests of the State"? The territorial prison is located in Iqaluit...
When we arrived for the 747-8 engine tests, it was 11pm when we got to the hotel - and none of us had eaten since lunch (the test 747 was a freighter and could only carry 10 people - the rest of us arrived on a chartered regional jet - we had to stop for gas 3 times to get there from Everett). The
only place in town that was open was a Pub, and they stopped serving food 10pm.
