0:00:02 > 0:00:12The Canadian Arctic. Wild, majestic and alluring.
0:00:12 > 0:00:17For 300 years, it drew thousands of Scots to work for the Hudson's Bay Company,
0:00:17 > 0:00:22trading with the native Inuit across the frozen planes.
0:00:22 > 0:00:27Working on a dairy farm in Dumfriesshire, it seemed quite exotic and quite exciting.
0:00:27 > 0:00:32The Hudson's Bay Boys fell in love with the land and its people.
0:00:32 > 0:00:38I've just enjoyed every single minute that I've lived in this beautiful community,
0:00:38 > 0:00:39in this beautiful land.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46But were shaken to the core when the Inuit survival was threatened.
0:00:46 > 0:00:52What it did was destroy a way of life, really, just basically overnight.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Totally unfair, and really made me extremely angry.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02The Bay Boys lived thousands of miles apart,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04spread across this vast territory.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Now, they are coming together.
0:01:07 > 0:01:14This has been absolutely a trip of a lifetime.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15They changed the Arctic.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20As a Scot, I felt very privileged to be part of the team that developed the government.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24- And the Arctic changed them. - When I left, I felt a loss.
0:01:24 > 0:01:30When I came back, I found...
0:01:30 > 0:01:33I found it again.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57The Inuit have survived in the Arctic for 1,000 years.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Nomads hunting for food in the harshest conditions.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12And for the furs they trap, they found a willing buyer.
0:02:14 > 0:02:15The Hudson's Bay Company.
0:02:17 > 0:02:22Set up in 1670, it recruited young men in search of adventure.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Thousands of Scots took up the challenge,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31and by the 20th century, they made up half the workforce.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41I saw an advert in the Scotsman newspaper,
0:02:41 > 0:02:46and it said, come north, young man, to the Hudson's Bay Company.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50We left Scotland and I didn't really know what to expect.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51It was an adventure.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03The thing that used to blow me away was I would suddenly look up
0:03:03 > 0:03:07and look around, look at these mountains over here, and it would
0:03:07 > 0:03:12just suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks, my God, I live in the Arctic!
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I'm in the Canadian Arctic. I couldn't believe it.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Donald Manns was posted to Pangnirtung,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33which lies at the edge of the frozen Arctic Circle.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Other Hudson's Bay outposts were
0:03:40 > 0:03:44scattered across Canada, so the Bay Boys rarely saw each other.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Now, four Scottish Bay Boys are coming from across Canada
0:03:52 > 0:03:54for a unique reunion.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57We're going to pick up the Bay guys at the airport,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00and try and get the pipes tuned in.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03I broke my chance just before they are coming in,
0:04:03 > 0:04:05so I have got my old chanter that sounds dreadful,
0:04:05 > 0:04:08so it's a bit of a panic.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17PIPES PLAY
0:04:21 > 0:04:26I'm among the last Bay Boys that came across, so this is
0:04:26 > 0:04:30really quite something, all these guys to come together with the tradition
0:04:30 > 0:04:35that goes from 1600s onwards of Scots coming into the Arctic
0:04:35 > 0:04:39and coming to the Hudson's Bay from many different parts of Scotland.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53The recruitment from Scotland stopped in the 1980s.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57These are the last of the Scottish Bay Boys.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19This is one of the last chances for an event like this to happen,
0:05:19 > 0:05:22because none of us are getting any younger.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54- Hello. How are you doing?- Hello, Johnny boy. How are you doing?
0:05:54 > 0:05:55Beautiful, beautiful.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01I haven't seen this fella since 1966.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06- When he stepped off the plane, Cambridge Bay.- June 13. - Wearing a violet shirt.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10It was my first posting. It's 44 years ago, almost to the day.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16I was here, and it's 42 years since I left, so it's quite an occasion.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18We had a bit of catching up to do.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23In the 1900s, modern life caught up with the Inuit.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36By the '60s, they abandoned their nomadic existence
0:06:36 > 0:06:40and formed communities around Hudson's Bay posts.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Every outpost had a general store, from which a Hudson's Bay Boy
0:06:49 > 0:06:54traded basic supplies for furs brought in by Inuit hunters.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11They established that a little outpost,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14so you can get the basics, sugar, tea, flour.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18- Tobacco.- They had posts in different places.- That's right.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21- They had so many of them. - Perry River, Cape Parry.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24These were all small outpost camps.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Hudson Bay stores, that one guy would be there.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33He would have no electricity, no running water, etc, etc.
0:07:33 > 0:07:38I mean, some guys would wait six months before they would get mail!
0:07:38 > 0:07:40I remember the big shortwave radio sitting in the corner
0:07:40 > 0:07:44of Bob's office, and there was always stories about the boys who'd
0:07:44 > 0:07:47speak Gaelic back and forth.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52I always thought it was fantastic, just fascinating.
0:07:52 > 0:07:57Usually the store would be a store and a little staff house combined, right?
0:07:57 > 0:08:01- And that was it. You would listen to the radio.- Shortwave radio.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Shortwave radio them big bush radios and you would read.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, A Tale Of Two Cities, you know,
0:08:08 > 0:08:11any of that. Any of that kind of stuff.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- And you knew it from back to front because you read it. - Read it twice.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31For the Scottish Bay Boys, the Arctic offered a new start.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36I came across here not long after my father died,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38and you're a young guy, 20-years-old,
0:08:38 > 0:08:42you don't really understand the emotions at running inside you.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44And you go a bit wild, you know?
0:08:45 > 0:08:49And I came north here and grew up, actually matured, grew up
0:08:49 > 0:08:55and got a chance to grow up away from home, in a different situation.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57We were given responsibilities,
0:08:57 > 0:09:02we were put in charge at the age of 20 of a 1.5 million store.
0:09:02 > 0:09:11I think the Hudson's Bay Company in some ways saved my life.
0:09:13 > 0:09:18And through the company, soon after arriving, he met a local Inuit girl.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Donald married Meeka in 1983.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30I'm preparing a big meal for the Hudson Bay Boys.
0:09:30 > 0:09:37I cooked some caribou, some fish, some halibut, some ribs and haggis.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42And my sister has cooked some rabbit and Arctic hare.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43It's all different.
0:09:43 > 0:09:48There's Yorkshire pudding, so it's all different kinds.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04I'd just like to thank everybody for coming along.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07It's a wee celebratory feast.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09We have about every single Arctic animal,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11including the wild haggis,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15that also grazes the plains of Pangnirtung.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20And as my mother used to say, "Stick in till you stick oot."
0:10:20 > 0:10:22THEY LAUGH
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Come on, you must know Address To A Haggis.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27Far fa' ye...
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Far fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the puddin' race.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, trip or thairm,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Weel are ye wordy of a grace, As lang's my arm.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40APPLAUSE
0:10:40 > 0:10:44Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin wad help to mend a mill
0:10:44 > 0:10:46In time o' need,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48While thro' your pores the dews distil
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Like amber bead.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52His knife...
0:10:52 > 0:10:53- Oh, shut up! - LAUGHING
0:11:12 > 0:11:14The temperatures have plummeted overnight.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17It's minus 20 and visibility is poor.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21Pretty white out there.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23But it should burn off...
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I hope.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29The Bay Boys are braving the extreme conditions to go on
0:11:29 > 0:11:32one last hunting trip together.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35They plan to camp out overnight
0:11:35 > 0:11:39and travel to the frozen water's edge to hunt seal.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45Donald and his Inuk brother-in-law, Noah, a local hunter,
0:11:45 > 0:11:47will guide the Bay Boys.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08The last time that I went sealing on the frozen sea ice
0:12:08 > 0:12:10was a long time ago.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14It would be really nice to get one today.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18But we don't know what it's going to be like until we get down there.
0:12:29 > 0:12:34Like Donald, Bay Boy John Graham made his home in the Arctic.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Leaving the family farm in Selkirk in 1976,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43he was posted to Iqaluit, where he met his Inuk wife, Eva.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48They're asking for Elizabeth.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Yeah, they already selected who's supposed to skin them.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55The seal is at the heart of the Inuit way of life.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00And every year, the community holds a festival to celebrate the animal.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05One, two... Move back!
0:13:08 > 0:13:12And the highly-prized skills of the hunters.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Just about every house would have one of those wooden racks outside,
0:13:23 > 0:13:29with the sealskin pelts actually stretched out on them.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32The ladies would string them up on those wooden frames
0:13:32 > 0:13:37and basically get them prepared for bringing in to the store
0:13:37 > 0:13:39for selling to the Hudson's Bay Company.
0:13:45 > 0:13:51The fur trade, really, it was what the Hudson's Bay Company was all about.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56And absolutely hundreds of sealskins would be brought into the store
0:13:56 > 0:13:57here in Iqaluit.
0:13:57 > 0:14:03I was fortunate enough to be one of the few at Iqaluit,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06probably I was the last one trained
0:14:06 > 0:14:09actually in the process of grading the furs.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11So you take the seal, basically.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14I mean, these are beautiful examples of seals.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19You just loved when the hunters brought in this type of pelt here.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22It's got a beautiful finish to it,
0:14:22 > 0:14:27there's absolutely no grease or anything on the surface of the fur.
0:14:27 > 0:14:34When you look at these sealskins, one realises just how
0:14:34 > 0:14:40important that was to the local economy for the Inuit hunters.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45Because, you know, someone comes in at the end of the hunting season,
0:14:45 > 0:14:48it's an expensive business doing that in the Arctic.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50But these folks,
0:14:50 > 0:14:55these families relied on the tariff that we paid for these skins.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57That paid for their food and groceries for the winter.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11On the hunting trip, the Bay Boys
0:15:11 > 0:15:13have been travelling for an hour,
0:15:13 > 0:15:16with the wind chill taking temperatures down
0:15:16 > 0:15:17to a biting minus 40.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29They're setting up base camp 40 miles from the water's edge.
0:15:33 > 0:15:34I'll have to eat my piece.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36That would be nice!
0:15:36 > 0:15:40That place was so cold, the margarine on the toast froze.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41LAUGHING
0:15:47 > 0:15:48This is exhilarating.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52This morning has been exciting. It feels good.
0:15:54 > 0:15:5664 years old, you know, getting on in life.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58Got to watch your step, your old ticker.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02It's... Who wouldn't, right?
0:16:02 > 0:16:07Good company, beautiful scenery and here we are pitching a tent
0:16:07 > 0:16:08so we can have a cup of tea.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10I'm going to follow the rest of the guys
0:16:10 > 0:16:12and leave here because I haven't a clue what I'm doing.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26There's a job for a tall man.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35This is the old Red Duster, as some used to call it.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37This was the Hudson Bay flag.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44So we thought it appropriate to bring it along on this trip here.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48The last time we put a flag up
0:16:48 > 0:16:50was in 1966 in Mount Pelly, Cambridge Bay.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53I used that pillowcase and I wrote "Scotland forever".
0:16:53 > 0:16:56There was me, you and Dave Dickson from Tighnabruich.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01So here we are again, 2011. 40-plus years later.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06- It was probably taken off somebody's bed.- It was my bed!
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Blowing like a bugger, it was. - It was. It was blowing.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20The oldest of the group, Jim Deyell,
0:17:20 > 0:17:26was posted to the remote island community of Sanikiluaq in 1968.
0:17:33 > 0:17:37Jim spent two years on the island, and as a Bay Boy lifer,
0:17:37 > 0:17:40he continued to work for the Company across the Arctic
0:17:40 > 0:17:42until he retired to southern Canada.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00This is the Hudson's Bay Company Store, where I worked in 1968.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Quite different from what it was then.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Wow! Not much left of the old girl at all.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Boy, oh boy!
0:18:20 > 0:18:23This is where we had the cash register.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Everything was served from behind the counter.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28There was no such thing as self-service in those days.
0:18:28 > 0:18:34It was all here on the wall, lined up in some orderly manner.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38I remember I used to know pretty much where everything was by...
0:18:38 > 0:18:42I just had to turn and it was almost like a sequence of buying things.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Certain customers would have a sequence of buying things.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Some would come in and their highest priority was maybe flour and sugar,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53and others would come in and the first they wanted was cigarettes.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55So I got to a point where I would almost know where
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I was going to go next.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03When I first saw him, he was huge. Huge man!
0:19:03 > 0:19:08He had muscles and he had red hair and my first impression was,
0:19:08 > 0:19:11"Oh, my goodness, he's a monster!"
0:19:14 > 0:19:16But he was gentle, too.
0:19:18 > 0:19:24And I was... He was kidding a lot, too.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27So I liked him right away.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32What's all this fur on your head? You look like a bear!
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Like Dora, many people remember Jim.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38- What happened to your hair?- Same thing to you!- I know - I lost mine.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Did you find yours?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Stay away from me, you bad girl.
0:19:45 > 0:19:50People welcomed him as part of the community and their culture.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53And they automatically trust the person,
0:19:53 > 0:19:58cos they know the person is going to help one way or another.
0:20:03 > 0:20:08At the tender age of 19, Jim was relied on heavily by the community.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12As a Bay Boy, responsibilities included all that was required
0:20:12 > 0:20:15for this community, all the souls in it.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19That was clothing, that was food. All their needs for a year.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21And making sure you had it right.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26The medical work, the dental work, the midwifery...
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Looking after dogs, giving them rabies shots,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33all the extracurricular...
0:20:33 > 0:20:36There was a vast amount of stuff, frankly.
0:20:40 > 0:20:45In 1969, Jim featured in a German documentary.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48It shows how he and other Bay Boys took on
0:20:48 > 0:20:50the role of doctor in the community.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53These little lungs...
0:20:53 > 0:20:56She's not breathing too well.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03Let's see what these little lungs say.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09We'll have to get on to that nurse again.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12'What have you given her so far? Over.'
0:21:12 > 0:21:17Roger. So far I've given her ampicillin, 250mg.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Intramuscular.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22What else can you advise me to give her?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25The poor little girl.
0:21:27 > 0:21:30This cursed weather, you know. Is it always like this?
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Every time we need a plane.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39When he couldn't deal with the situation himself,
0:21:39 > 0:21:43Jim would call out a plane to airlift the patient.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56Once, though, on the remote island, help was simply too far away.
0:21:59 > 0:22:03It was totally out of control. No book told me anything about this.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07I was told later that the only thing I could do was drill
0:22:07 > 0:22:10a hole in her head to relieve the pressure from the meningitis,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13the membrane of the brain that was swelling.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16I had no means to drill a hole in anyone's head
0:22:16 > 0:22:20and I don't think even then I would have attempted something like that.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30At the time, I wanted to do more. I just didn't know what I could do.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33I'd never seen a death like that - a person losing control
0:22:33 > 0:22:38of one bodily function after another in fairly rapid succession.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43I can see people looking at me yet, saying, "What are you going to do?"
0:22:43 > 0:22:46And there was nothing I could do.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02But Jim also played a part in bringing new life to Sanikiluaq
0:23:02 > 0:23:04when he delivered a baby boy.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10Jimmy is what's known as my saunik.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16The word saunik is an Inuit word and it literally means "from my bone".
0:23:16 > 0:23:19He's not my biological son,
0:23:19 > 0:23:23but he is essentially me, and I him.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27We haven't seen a whole lot of each other or kept in touch that much
0:23:27 > 0:23:29so I'm looking forward to seeing Jimmy.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41The biggest event in the Bay Boy calendar
0:23:41 > 0:23:46was the annual sealift where 95% of the post supplies for the year
0:23:46 > 0:23:50were landed and when all the skins bought over the previous year
0:23:50 > 0:23:51were shipped out.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55You've got the frozen Arctic Ocean.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59That is only open for three months of the year
0:23:59 > 0:24:02so that's a very narrow window
0:24:02 > 0:24:07in which to get all the goods and supplies here to the post
0:24:07 > 0:24:10so that you're all set up for the remainder of the year.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12You only have one chance to do that.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21The first sealift began in the late 17th century
0:24:21 > 0:24:27as the Hudson's Bay Company sought to exploit its trade with the Inuit.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31The sealift was the highlight of the year, really, for the company.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35We'd all be working together in great big chains moving the cases.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37A real sense of community involvement
0:24:37 > 0:24:42and that was necessary to get all the goods from the ship
0:24:42 > 0:24:45and into the warehouses.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50We have all these good memories with our elders
0:24:50 > 0:24:55and we talk about it quite often. It was a very exciting time because
0:24:55 > 0:24:57it was a time we saw different people.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Cos we'd been seeing the same old people all winter long.
0:25:01 > 0:25:06The ship comes in and all these new people,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09they are shaking hands, and they're patting your head.
0:25:09 > 0:25:15And... Yeah, and they smell good. Because they wash. We didn't!
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Ann remembers helping out with the sealift as a child.
0:25:22 > 0:25:29Our payment was hard candy and hardtack biscuit, and tea.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32And that was very exciting and that was overwhelmingly good
0:25:32 > 0:25:35because we didn't get to have those treats.
0:25:41 > 0:25:46The new people, they have music, the squeezebox music,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Scottish music and there'd be dances at night
0:25:49 > 0:25:51after we worked all day long.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53SCOTTISH FIDDLE MUSIC
0:25:58 > 0:26:03And this went on for all night long. Not just a few hours, all night.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Jim and the other Bay Boys had a reputation
0:26:14 > 0:26:16throughout the Arctic for partying.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19And the Friday night dance was a fixture across the North.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27We were encouraged not to fraternise.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I thought it was discriminatory, really.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34If you're told not to do a thing, what's the first thing you do? You do it, right? You know?
0:26:34 > 0:26:37I guess you'd put it, there was a lot of debauchery went on.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- It was...- Speak for yourself!
0:26:39 > 0:26:44But that was the way it was. You had this relationship
0:26:44 > 0:26:47with the community and, you know... Right?
0:26:47 > 0:26:51Am I right or what? Just ask any of these guys, they'll tell you.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55I would say, put us in the same category as Rasputin.
0:26:55 > 0:26:56LAUGHTER
0:26:56 > 0:26:58The mad monk from Russia.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Overall, though, there was a moral code.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08Yeah, we got drunk and the ends got a little loose, you know.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10But overall, no.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13We hung out with the folks we worked with.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17And Inuit worked in the store, they were our friends.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21- I never thought of Inuit as any different than anybody else.- No.- No.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26That's the kind of way your thought processes when you're 18, I suppose.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30That's why... Look, he's married an Inuit, he's married an Inuit. I was married to an Inuit.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Three out of five, right?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Four.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37Four, sorry, my apologies. Four out of five, and it wasn't unusual.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40We identified with the folks in the town,
0:27:40 > 0:27:42more I think than anybody else.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47I felt I was part of the community. I guess I've always felt that.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55During his posting to Sanikiluaq, Jim became
0:27:55 > 0:27:59so involved with the community he helped deliver a baby boy.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09It's been 20 years since he last saw his Saunik and namesake, Jimmy.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13(INAUDIBLE)
0:28:17 > 0:28:19- It's all right, now.- Thanks.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23Annie. Come on, where's my hug?
0:28:27 > 0:28:29- Good to see you again.- You too.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33- You got thin.- Yep!- Just like me!
0:28:35 > 0:28:38I was taken into their family.
0:28:38 > 0:28:42They gave me everything. They had little, very little really.
0:28:42 > 0:28:48Poverty was really a way to describe Sanikiluaq in all forms.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52But even then, that which they had they gave to me,
0:28:52 > 0:28:54they shared with me, provided for me.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58- Uh, my family's here.- Hey!
0:28:59 > 0:29:04Wow. That's your family? What happened? Where did we all come from?
0:29:04 > 0:29:05I know this one!
0:29:07 > 0:29:13- (INAUDIBLE)- Hello.- I won't remember all these names, of course.
0:29:13 > 0:29:18And there is the family, eh? Who's this guy down here in the middle?
0:29:18 > 0:29:22- Anybody you know?- That's me! - That's you, Jimmy.
0:29:24 > 0:29:30- Grandmother.- Grandmother herself. She was smoking a pipe there.
0:29:30 > 0:29:34- It had that little thing.- Lid. - The lid, the metal lid.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Yeah, that's right.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39You're my second mum. You're first mum, I think.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46Back in the 1960s,
0:29:46 > 0:29:50Jimmy's family made sure that Jim was looked after in his own home.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Big chimney on it, never was there before.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Go in. Go inside.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03One of the sisters, Annie, became Jim's housemaid.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04In you go.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08Moves on and it changes, Annie, eh?
0:30:08 > 0:30:12- All the houses and everything around us now, it's all different.- Yeah.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Some nights I would just open the curtains
0:30:14 > 0:30:18and I would sit and look at the stars and play my accordion.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Remember that? Maybe you don't.
0:30:21 > 0:30:26Annie's mum saw that Jim missed his family in Shetland.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29What your mother was to me was like a mother to me, really.
0:30:29 > 0:30:34Because I sometimes thought that if I wasn't nicely dressed or clean
0:30:34 > 0:30:38or looking good, then your mum would be upset.
0:30:38 > 0:30:39She was like a mum.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43- Thank you.- She was like a mum.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45Then you came along and this house was as clean as any house
0:30:45 > 0:30:47I ever lived in.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50Sometimes I tease my wife about that. She says, "Oh, really?"
0:30:50 > 0:30:52Me?!
0:30:56 > 0:31:01- Still after all these years. - Still after all these years, I know.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05And you've got more hair than me now! Even though it's white.
0:31:24 > 0:31:31For Jim, being a young Hudson's Bay Boy was tough but unforgettable.
0:31:35 > 0:31:36There was great stress in it.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39At the time I didn't dwell on the stress
0:31:39 > 0:31:42and maybe the reason I didn't dwell on the stress
0:31:42 > 0:31:47is that the love that was reciprocated to me, that was...
0:31:47 > 0:31:50I just felt part of their family.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53The stress in that sense was eliminated.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55It's when I left, you know...
0:31:55 > 0:31:58When I left I was smoking 60 cigarettes a day
0:31:58 > 0:32:02so there were signs obviously that things were heavy on me.
0:32:02 > 0:32:08But it's when I left, I felt lost and when I came back, I found...
0:32:10 > 0:32:11I found it again.
0:32:23 > 0:32:27The Bay Boys are continuing their journey across the ice
0:32:27 > 0:32:28to the open water.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34Donald's Inuit brother-in-law must check the ice is solid.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42If you walk about drive about down there...
0:32:42 > 0:32:46We could lose a machine and lose people that way.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49- if we don't check anything. - I think that it's a mile thick!
0:32:49 > 0:32:50LAUGHTER
0:32:55 > 0:32:59They must travel 40 miles to the flow edge
0:32:59 > 0:33:02where they're hoping to hunt for seal.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17If it's really, really cold and you're seal hunting
0:33:17 > 0:33:20in the middle of the winter, and somebody gets a seal
0:33:20 > 0:33:24and you go over, you can feel the cold into the middle of you.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27And then you have some raw seal meat.
0:33:27 > 0:33:30It's just like a little furnace has gone off inside you.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40My wife loves it when you come back with a nice, fresh seal
0:33:40 > 0:33:45and she can share it with the family and she's proud of me
0:33:45 > 0:33:47because I've been out hunting.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50I mean, it's not... This isn't part of my culture
0:33:50 > 0:33:52so you do what you can to fit in.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03Meeka also introduce Donald to ice fishing,
0:34:03 > 0:34:06the Inuit way of catching Arctic char.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18When the sun comes and it gets warmer,
0:34:18 > 0:34:19we just want to be up at the lake.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25And the work gets in the way sometimes!
0:34:28 > 0:34:30Ooh, that's one.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36We usually go as a family, always going with my sister
0:34:36 > 0:34:39and my brother's also going.
0:34:40 > 0:34:41Yeah!
0:34:43 > 0:34:47Just to be outside and have a family time.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Sit here in quiet place.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57I'm just waiting for that catch!
0:35:00 > 0:35:02For me it's not even about the fishing,
0:35:02 > 0:35:04I just love being here with Meeka.
0:35:04 > 0:35:09It's something we can do together, something that makes her happy, something she loves.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12Whoo!
0:35:15 > 0:35:19Donald and Meeka have three children and four grandchildren.
0:35:20 > 0:35:26The family speak both Inuktitut, the Inuit language, and English.
0:35:26 > 0:35:32For them all, they've benefited immensely from their Inuit heritage.
0:35:32 > 0:35:36They're very much I think at home with who they are.
0:35:36 > 0:35:41They have their Inuit background and their Scottish background,
0:35:41 > 0:35:44and quite proud of both of them.
0:35:44 > 0:35:49Lunchtime! Come and get them before they disappear in snow.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Want a bowl...?
0:35:56 > 0:35:59It's very hot.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05You know what, there's nothing better...
0:36:08 > 0:36:11CONVIVIAL CHATTER
0:36:11 > 0:36:15I think Inuit people are...
0:36:15 > 0:36:19they're a stunningly attractive race,
0:36:19 > 0:36:23they're beautiful people, with a unique culture
0:36:23 > 0:36:27that they can be so proud of. And I'm so happy that my kids
0:36:27 > 0:36:33have been able to, er...have that.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49On the hunt, the Bay Boys have reached the open water.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53It's absolutely spectacular.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56It's hard to believe that we're standing here
0:36:56 > 0:37:00on ice at the floe edge on Cumberland Sound.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07I feel kind of blessed to be here, to tell you the honest truth about it all.
0:37:09 > 0:37:13Just being here kind of makes this trip for me,
0:37:13 > 0:37:15to be honest, it really does.
0:37:15 > 0:37:20Never thought I'd see myself on the...
0:37:20 > 0:37:22here at the floe edge on Cumberland Sound.
0:37:23 > 0:37:30It's quite spectacular, and the ice floe's just gently moving.
0:37:31 > 0:37:38The slushy surface, a kind of gelled water, that's in a semi-frozen state
0:37:38 > 0:37:41is just moving gently past us,
0:37:41 > 0:37:44and there's a lovely piece of clear water out there that we're
0:37:44 > 0:37:47hoping we can see a seal's head pop up
0:37:47 > 0:37:51and then we'll hopefully have something for supper tonight!
0:38:11 > 0:38:13For centuries, Inuit hunted seal,
0:38:13 > 0:38:16and the outside world found it acceptable.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28Fur was a must-have fashion item in the '60s.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33But taste changed.
0:38:37 > 0:38:42In 1977, Brigitte Bardot staged a photo call on the Canadian ice,
0:38:42 > 0:38:46to denounce the cruelty of killing baby seals for their fur.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Images of the seal cull on the east coast of Canada
0:38:52 > 0:38:57highlighted the killing of seals for their fur across the world.
0:39:00 > 0:39:07Across Europe, activists lobbied their governments to ban the trade in seal fur from Canada.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12PROTESTERS SHOUT
0:39:18 > 0:39:23I got a call from Bob Young, who was the manager at the time,
0:39:23 > 0:39:27and he had a memo that had come in,
0:39:27 > 0:39:30and he said the seal prices had changed.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34And when I looked at the prices I was quite shocked.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38We were told why it was happening, that there was a market collapse,
0:39:38 > 0:39:41but the people here didn't understand that.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44I mean, it was "What do you mean? You were paying 32 yesterday,
0:39:44 > 0:39:48"and today you're telling me that the skin is worth 8?"
0:39:48 > 0:39:50I mean, it was just a disaster.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52And there was nothing one could do about it.
0:39:53 > 0:39:58The fact that Inuit hunted adult seal for food and fur,
0:39:58 > 0:40:01and killed just five per cent of the total cull,
0:40:01 > 0:40:04did not protect them.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06It was annoying,
0:40:06 > 0:40:11to see Inuit lumped in in this suddenly fashionable thing,
0:40:11 > 0:40:16and people making judgments on Inuit,
0:40:16 > 0:40:21based on their own ignorance, on not understanding what the whole picture was.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25Totally unfair. And really made me extremely angry.
0:40:25 > 0:40:30What it did was destroy a way of life, really, basically overnight.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34What it did was put people on welfare,
0:40:34 > 0:40:35that's the bottom line of it.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46They stayed here in town all the time.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50A lot of impact on family, and suicide gone up, skyrocketed.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55A lot of kids, young people, were killing themselves.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58A lot. I mean, a lot.
0:40:59 > 0:41:03And the Greenpeace didn't do nothing.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05They wanted to save seals, that's it.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15For the Inuit, it was a social catastrophe.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22For the Bay Boys, it meant making a choice.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26They chose to stay.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36Neil Greig settled with his Inuit family in Kuujjuaq.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39It's the largest settlement in Nunavik,
0:41:39 > 0:41:42the Inuit region of northern Quebec.
0:41:47 > 0:41:52The collapse of the fur trade hit this town pretty hard.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54In this part of town
0:41:54 > 0:41:58you'll certainly find a substantial amount of substance abuse,
0:41:58 > 0:42:00alcohol, drug abuse,
0:42:00 > 0:42:06which today has become a major problem for us in the community.
0:42:15 > 0:42:19- This one is my daughter, Joanna... - Hello.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22This is my granddaughter, Leanna, from my older son.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Iko is Joanna's son - my grandson.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28And then we have Robert, who is my son,
0:42:28 > 0:42:31and he's holding onto Gabriel,
0:42:31 > 0:42:34who is Joanna's adopted son.
0:42:35 > 0:42:41And then we have, over in the far corner... ALL LAUGH
0:42:41 > 0:42:46we have Simeone Greig, who is Joanna's son,
0:42:46 > 0:42:48our grandson.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50He's 15 now,
0:42:50 > 0:42:56and Simeone was somewhat handicapped when he was born.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01And he's lived with us off and on ever since then, so...
0:43:01 > 0:43:03He's the one that's always laughing.
0:43:07 > 0:43:08Simeone was brain damaged
0:43:08 > 0:43:13when his mother was run over by a local drunk driver when she was pregnant.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18It was horrific, it was, erm...difficult.
0:43:18 > 0:43:23It's hard to put everything in words...
0:43:23 > 0:43:26You know, we still get emotional when we talk about it,
0:43:26 > 0:43:29we still get angry when we talk about it.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34I mean, you've seen our grandson. He's happy.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36For us, as long as HE'S happy, we're happy.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38It was tough at the time, but you've got to move on.
0:43:38 > 0:43:43You can't rest in the past, and live in the past.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53After the accident,
0:43:53 > 0:43:56Neil worked with the community to set up a treatment centre.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05It's the first to use traditional culture to help the Inuit
0:44:05 > 0:44:07overcome their addiction.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15I'm here for the treatment, for healing.
0:44:15 > 0:44:19Cos I had an alcohol and drugs problem,
0:44:19 > 0:44:21and I couldn't handle it any more.
0:44:21 > 0:44:27THEY CONVERSE IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:44:28 > 0:44:31'When I got here, I started a programme,
0:44:31 > 0:44:34'it changed me. Changed me a lot.'
0:44:35 > 0:44:38I feel lighter.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43It helps...
0:44:43 > 0:44:46This treatment really helps.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Neil also saw that locals needed help
0:44:58 > 0:45:01to preserve their traditional lifestyle.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06We were scared that through the collapse of the fur trade,
0:45:06 > 0:45:08we were going to lose all the traditions
0:45:08 > 0:45:11and harvesting that people did in the past.
0:45:11 > 0:45:14So we put in place the Hunter Support Programme,
0:45:14 > 0:45:18and in essence it's to help those hunters
0:45:18 > 0:45:21and trappers make a decent living,
0:45:21 > 0:45:24and to ensure that the culture of that continues.
0:45:36 > 0:45:42The Hunter Support Programme has enabled people like Thomas to learn the ancient skills.
0:45:43 > 0:45:46Rock ptarmigan.
0:45:46 > 0:45:50His first fox yesterday, and his first ptarmigan today.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53Very good for the young people.
0:45:53 > 0:45:59Tradition to keep our youngsters like this hunting. It's very good.
0:46:12 > 0:46:18I used to drink a lot before, but now I don't. Now I live off the land.
0:46:18 > 0:46:19And I am happy for that.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25It's more fun hunting than drinking.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30You can remember the next day.
0:46:34 > 0:46:38Very good stuff when it's fresh.
0:46:38 > 0:46:40We prefer to eat it like this all the time.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47And this is our special dip...
0:46:50 > 0:46:57..Beluga whale dipped in fat, or seal oil, whichever you prefer.
0:46:58 > 0:47:01We ferment it, and then we use it as a dip.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05And it's very good, we use it with all our food.
0:47:07 > 0:47:10It's very important to keep our heritage,
0:47:10 > 0:47:14to keep our young people learning, teaching them.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19This is what we eat, this is who we are.
0:47:28 > 0:47:32I don't think we're going to have much chance of a seal.
0:47:32 > 0:47:37I think we should head for camp. What do you think, Noah, good idea?
0:47:37 > 0:47:40Okey-doke. Let's get going.
0:47:40 > 0:47:42We've fed our eyes if we haven't fed our bellies, eh?
0:47:42 > 0:47:44Beautiful.
0:47:46 > 0:47:52In sub-zero conditions, Inuit hunters often spend days waiting for a seal.
0:47:53 > 0:47:57But with darkness approaching, the boys head back to base camp.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Like Neil, none of the other Bay Boys
0:48:42 > 0:48:46thought the collapse of the seal fur trade was a reason to leave.
0:48:47 > 0:48:51I never ever thought once about going back to Scotland, I don't think
0:48:51 > 0:48:53that's the kind of folks that we are -
0:48:53 > 0:48:55we got a mission, you got a job to do,
0:48:55 > 0:48:57and you forge ahead and you get it done,
0:48:57 > 0:49:01and you're not happy until it's, er...completed to the...you know,
0:49:01 > 0:49:03highest standards or whatever.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06I never thought about going anywhere else.
0:49:06 > 0:49:10In fact, the fact that this happened maybe compelled me all the more to stay.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13I mean, I still love Scotland dearly,
0:49:13 > 0:49:17but this is my home here now,
0:49:17 > 0:49:21and it's taken a long time to realise that.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23But one day you wake up, and you go,
0:49:23 > 0:49:28"Well, actually, things just don't get better than this. This is where it's at."
0:49:28 > 0:49:31My wife said to me, part of me lives in the north,
0:49:31 > 0:49:34part of me lives in the Shetlands, and she has the balance.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36And that's the way it is.
0:49:36 > 0:49:41For me, I'd been a big fish in a small pond.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44And so with kind of an ego-driven guy like I am,
0:49:44 > 0:49:49that was what really sort of got me engaged.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56John Todd settled in Rankin Inlet,
0:49:56 > 0:49:59after a nine-month stint with the Hudson's Bay Company.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10From here, he joined forces with the Inuit
0:50:10 > 0:50:13and set about building a business empire.
0:50:23 > 0:50:28I am obsessed by trying to do the right thing,
0:50:28 > 0:50:31trying to make sure that the folks that I've grown up with
0:50:31 > 0:50:35get a fairer opportunity, you know, get some chances
0:50:35 > 0:50:37of jobs and prosperity.
0:50:37 > 0:50:41I mean, half the folks I grew up with lived in poverty.
0:50:44 > 0:50:48John's entrepreneurial flair saw him grow into a millionaire.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56And in the '90s, he became a key political figure.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59I used to pinch myself every day,
0:50:59 > 0:51:04thinking I've gone from a Bay Boy making 146.26 a month
0:51:04 > 0:51:08to the number two guy in the territory as the finance minister.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11For some reason I'm nervous.
0:51:11 > 0:51:15Mr Speaker, today it's my pleasure to present the first budget
0:51:15 > 0:51:18of the legislative assembly of the Northwest Territories.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20'As a Scot, I felt then as I feel now,
0:51:20 > 0:51:22'very privileged to be part of the team
0:51:22 > 0:51:25'that developed the Nunavut government,
0:51:25 > 0:51:29'which was a major constitutional change in Canada
0:51:29 > 0:51:34'that really put the Inuits' future in the hands of Inuits,
0:51:34 > 0:51:39'because you have a government that is now run and controlled
0:51:39 > 0:51:41'by the folks that live in the country
0:51:41 > 0:51:44'and that are basically the custodians of the Arctic.'
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Now John is turning his attention to mining,
0:51:49 > 0:51:53which he believes is the key to the future prosperity of the Inuit.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Here we are with a real,
0:51:58 > 0:52:02once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create some jobs,
0:52:02 > 0:52:08give the kids some opportunity, and I think that it'll only come by once.
0:52:15 > 0:52:18- Hello.- Hello. Welcome to Meliadine.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21Thank you very much. Good to be here. Me too.
0:52:23 > 0:52:26John's spent decades lobbying big business
0:52:26 > 0:52:30and government to invest in mineral exploration in the Arctic.
0:52:30 > 0:52:35And here at the Meliadine mine, they have found one of the largest
0:52:35 > 0:52:37undeveloped gold deposits in Canada.
0:52:37 > 0:52:41Right there. See that? That's gold.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43You haven't got a larger nugget you can give me
0:52:43 > 0:52:44to take home with me as a gift?
0:52:44 > 0:52:48- We do not.- Oh, OK. All right. That's kind of disappointing!
0:52:48 > 0:52:50THEY LAUGH
0:52:52 > 0:52:54Mining in the Arctic is controversial,
0:52:54 > 0:52:58but many Inuit see it as a way to secure their future.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02You're a millionaire. I'm poor.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04THEY LAUGH
0:53:05 > 0:53:07More than half of those working at the mine
0:53:07 > 0:53:09are from the surrounding communities.
0:53:13 > 0:53:17- Do you like the work you do?- I really like it.- Yeah? Make good money?
0:53:17 > 0:53:22- Yeah.- New skidoo? All that kind of stuff?- Yeah.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25LAUGHTER
0:53:25 > 0:53:30- How about you? You're from? - Er, Rankin.- Rankin, right?- William.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33Oh, OK, OK. I knew the face!
0:53:33 > 0:53:35- So you're doing OK, right?- Yeah.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38Do you think you would have had a job without the mining thing?
0:53:38 > 0:53:42- To be honest with us? - Er, no.- You don't think so?
0:53:42 > 0:53:46- I don't think so either. You know? It's been tough, right?- Yeah.
0:53:47 > 0:53:52When you see it happening, it kind of overwhelms you, to be honest.
0:53:52 > 0:53:56Because I don't think anybody give a shit for these people, to be honest.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00I think they're kind of left out of the loop,
0:54:00 > 0:54:02if you want to call it that, in my opinion,
0:54:02 > 0:54:06and I think this kind of sense of...
0:54:06 > 0:54:10I call it economic independence is going to make the country better
0:54:10 > 0:54:12and it's going to make the communities better,
0:54:12 > 0:54:17and for me at a very personal level, it... It makes you feel good.
0:54:19 > 0:54:21I can't say any more.
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Here in Rankin Inlet and across the Arctic,
0:54:39 > 0:54:43the economic and cultural prospects are looking good.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48The seal fur trade has expanded to Asia
0:54:48 > 0:54:52and the young Inuit are reconnecting with the old way of life.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08It's the end of the hunting trip,
0:55:08 > 0:55:12and the Bay Boys are heading back to Pangertot.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30Soon they'll return to their different corners of Canada.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34But not before one last celebration.
0:55:45 > 0:55:49We've tried to piece together a dance, like the old days,
0:55:49 > 0:55:52like the things we used to go to in the community hall,
0:55:52 > 0:55:56the way it used to be, and it's rare that they happen now
0:55:56 > 0:55:58so it's quite special to pull it together
0:55:58 > 0:56:02and we're looking forward to everybody managing to make it in.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04I think we'll have a good night.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06LIVELY ACCORDION MUSIC PLAYS
0:56:11 > 0:56:12Whoo!
0:56:14 > 0:56:16WHOOPING
0:56:20 > 0:56:23The Arctic, really, has made me the person I am.
0:56:23 > 0:56:30Even though I've been away, when I come back, we haven't been forgotten.
0:56:30 > 0:56:32I will say this for certain -
0:56:32 > 0:56:36I got far more from the Arctic than I ever gave. This place...
0:56:38 > 0:56:39It's in many ways my home.
0:56:44 > 0:56:48I fell in love with the landscape and the people.
0:56:48 > 0:56:55This community has been so good to me over the last 36 years that I have been here.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58I've just enjoyed every single minute
0:56:58 > 0:57:02that I've lived in this beautiful community, in this beautiful land.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07I think probably, for me, it's the people.
0:57:07 > 0:57:11It's about what the people have given me in me being here.
0:57:11 > 0:57:17I wouldn't be who I am now without the support and the kindness of so many people.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19CHEERING
0:57:46 > 0:57:50- Take care. See ya!- Take care.
0:57:52 > 0:57:54- Cheers.- God bless.- Goodbye.
0:58:01 > 0:58:06The Scots may have stopped coming to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Arctic
0:58:06 > 0:58:12but the Bay Boys and all those who came before them will not be forgotten.
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