HAP E, according to N.W.T.’s housing corporation, was a very popular option during the original Homeownership Assistance Program. The bungalow is 1,120 square feet, has three bedrooms and had three different floor plans that could switch up the interior while keeping the exterior the same. (Screenshot via the NWT Housing Corp.’s 1989 HAP Catalogue)
Too few developed subdivisions among the biggest barriers to new housing program: NAM executive director
Many challenges remain for hamlets looking to benefit from the territory’s latest home ownership initiative, but Nunavut Association of Municipalities’ executive director Marla Limousin says communities are preparing to face them.
Caleb Fretter, a nurse in Naujaat, photographed this bowhead whale skull a few hundred metres from the hamlet after hunters told him where to look. Residents told him the skull was from one of four whales whose meat had been harvested and the carcasses sent back to sea to prevent the scent of blood from attracting polar bears. “I had seen the skulls via photograph in a museum in Pangnirtung last fall, and at the time I had wondered at how incredible it would be to see them in person,” Fretter said. (Photo courtesy of Caleb Fretter)