Canada Goose brings parka material to western Nunavut

Scores of Cambridge Bay women come to the western Nunavut community’s high school June 4 while the parka-making company Canada Goose handed out hundreds of metres of fabric. “Community members took home four metres of fabric each and were appreciative of this gesture,” said Pamela Gross, the mayor of Cambridge Bay and the executive director of the Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society. The Canada Goose program, which has been in place for 10 years, delivers fabric to Inuit who use the material to make modern parkas. It’s a way of “passing on tradition and pastime to keep our people warm,” Gross said. (Photo courtesy of Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq)