On this week’s episode of Roots and Hoots, host Gordon Spence is thrilled to be joined by His Excellency Whit Fraser, C.C. With an illustrious communications career in Canada’s Arctic, Mr.Fraser takes listeners on a journey that includes key events and figures that have shaped today’s Arctic. His coverage with CBC included the First Minister’s Constitutional amendments that enshrined Indigenous rights in the Constitution of Canada, Inuit land claim agreements, the Berger Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry and the creation of the Nunavut Territory. This episode is filled with historical relevance and captivating details that make up a career well served and a life well lived.

Show Notes:

• Inuit Tapirit Kanatami (ITK)
• Berger Inquiry
• The White Paper, 1969
• Constitution Act, 1982 Section 35
• Polar Knowledge Canada
• Inuit High Arctic Relocation
• Shadow of Nanook

Books

• True North Rising by Whit Fraser
• Stories Told: Stories and Images of the Berger Inquiry by Patrick Scott
• Stoneface: Memoir of a Defiant Dene by Stephen Kakfwi
• Cold Edge of Heaven by Whit Fraser
• What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile by Larry Audlaluk

People

• Governor General Mary Simon
• Tagak Curley
• Jonah Kelly
• Abe Okpik
• John Amagoalik

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