The Herald. Thursday, April %, 1981, Page " | - Hesangie BAY, N.W.T. cr “two things, curiosity and - a , draw southerders to + There wat a. * panip’ was. fled ‘th alr- ; a planes,” says. ‘Terry ~~" Baseraba, local manager for » Kenn Borek Air Ltd, a ma- ” jor alr charter service. . Borek had half a dosen alr- ” erafthereonce. Now it files a couple of Twin Otters, work- * hosed of the North - But the money is still good “and some like the life. . ‘Although | pay rates ‘aren't . Higher’ than in the South, - ost people work seven days : a _ a week, collecting a lot of f grertime. “Which is just as well, says wd -tract superintendent. for 4 “Tower Arctic Ltd,, . ‘which - ” be “operates the airport for the . ‘federal ‘department of transport, . i . “The best thing that can happen is to have a lot of ey and overtime,” he wpesatute is designated a ingle men’s base. Residents live in the government-run ‘Alrhotel, 4 combination” a * “John Goodwin, Resolute con- * dark. ‘season “(November to February) has quite a marked effect on people, -even the Inuit. - “Three {ull months of: darkness during the coldest - time of the year. It's pitch . black and it gets quite . ‘depressing. ” Married couples are barred although ‘Goodwin says all his key personnel baye families in the South. It - seems to help ‘to have " “something to go back to. But “Goodwin is battling an90- - per-cent turnover rate. A * couple of years at Resolute: ean accelerate someone financially but many aren't prepared to take the hard- ship and loneliness. Others, like Baseraba, . have adapted well. Before. - joining Borek, he managed - the local bank, which closed last fall. Unilke those who rotate out regularly, Baseraba, in his mid-20s, has “spent only 10 days away in the last. 13 months, ‘- *[ don’t like the bustle and bultle of the ‘city,’ he says. “It's slower here and you take everything as it comes. “I"]) tell you one thing, you sure look forward to those seven days of summer — seven days in a row, two days when you can take off your T-shirt, even." - Summer -means airplane rides, fishing at spectacular locales further north and ether entertainments, like the annual Griese Fiord sand-green golf tournament. Short-llved clubs are which doubles as a morgue, holding bodies until they can be flown south’ for burial. ‘One ‘bonspiel had‘ to! be cancelled because the building was needed for its other purpose. ; Age is no barrier to living. - at Resolule. Jack Magrath, who manages the botel, is 70. Hearrived 10 years ago after . peliring from: the Britiah- ‘American Bank Nolte Co. Idle after a long career in . away is the other Resolute, ‘there jsn’t “much - game shot,” says Goodwin. . an Inuit hamlet of about 125, Like the base it’s an -ar- . Central and South America, “I - got tired: of . doing nothing. ” A friend told him ‘about an ‘ opening at Resolute's hotel so, he went. . ay thought the hotel would, establish sovereignty in the -bar. at the base, has asizable . -be a bunch of igioos,” says. Arctic,. - patronage from: the. hamlet. : Magrath, who vacations with Inuit were brought in from .And the base's single mea friends in Mexico every few weeks, “There are really two Reso- lutes and they seldom meet. The base is peopled by about 950 workers from the South. - most of whom stay a year or two then go. home with thelr ‘money. 2” Pond Inlet, or Baffin Island, _ and Port Harrison, ‘in, nar- ~ thern Quebec, in’ 1953° and settled. into government - housing:: Aside from a few “Jobe at. the base there.- is little econdmic ‘life “in' the: com- _- munity except: for: some ” hunting and fishing, ‘The and. the’ hamlet’s women have combined. to produce the worst venereal disease rate in ‘the North. “There used to bea ban on - ‘government employees trav- elling to the-village, —, “Tt Lan’t banned now but [ discourage it because one of these days one of my guys Is . About eight kilometres | hunters must ratigefarsince going to. get. harpooned | or. tificial around and Cornwallix.: - The two ‘compiunities have ‘There have been rumors of incidents at the hamlet,” he : community, little contact —' the thajor BAYB, but the villagers™ established in the 1950s. as “overlap is Grinking ard sex. mostly take it out on part of Canada’s pan to The Arctic Circle Club, the themselves. 7s: a6 | southerners and considers it - .a'form of racial prejudice. | apartment house and formed — like the Resolute - hostelry, or in a scattering of Penguin Sighting Society company-owned quarters. and the Armadillo Growers Rent is subsidized, leaving 80d Breeders Association — lois of money to spend but al- mainly as an excuse to thraw feast nothing to spend it on. © party. | Getting banned irom the The high point of the social i Arctic Circle Club bar is a “péazon is the annual Polar or punishment: There is Bear Swish in August. Unlike nowhere else to go. +its East Coast. and Van- ‘The local term for cabin couver counterparts, there's * fever is “getting bushed.”” a good chance swimmers ~ For some it's only 2. matier will actually encounter a *— ie aller, Een [in ae rolle ia Peg: - Hartnell teft, part owner: : * h and ever oF? We Kind! of tneer“at the: Manager of Silhovelte “Fashions,.“Creek, Christiane. Viénnieau -ot ® Sn ae other polar bear swinis,”. Ltd. presents $50 gift certificates Terrace and _Laura Spencer of UT fluctuates with the sea- says Baseraba, from. Silhouette’s Spring Gala Terrace. -. son,” says Goodwin. ‘The Thebage bas. curing Fink Affair Weekend Draw to Mrs. : — 3 : . Hight & Hutcn " In Sernky wm at - 1 Dick an wor it oe b. a ee Perey NHL - [alee Langer Revert Pisyotts |" yee tha Howse [as °. Buck a Boat URL 1d eemenwer | o deluxe beat. Ree. flere azda builds a pickup, the: dont settle for — - all the features we've already mentioned Us ee a Lees . a second best. 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Inuit women are treated by” “The root of it, I think, sa. ; total disrespect for ‘human - Walues.”” The men, fh he” ‘says,. are looking only. for sex with the Inult women, ©. °°." “They wouldn't: ‘think: “et sleeping with the daughter of their best friend ‘but ‘they. think ~ nothing: of sleeping: | with the daughter of. the guy g they work beside.””” §. ~ Dexter says other, more: & isolated Inuit communities 2 ~ are thriving and have strong ° leadership.. He considers’ Resolute a sore~ spot, and: - blames it on easily: ac-_ cessible alcohol, beth at the” Suriosity, money draw people i to Resolute : people have toegetten’Hinsn’t escaped him, Atciigt 36 be belongs to a deggeasing : ‘He. belleves haif the ‘community bas a. drinking problem to some degree. Other villages have banned. or ‘restricted. alcohol, But although. Resolute has. ; | capable people, “they just . can’t seem lo weld. ‘together 8 egrap” Ekalsak Amagoalik is one of the Inuit instructors at the Canadian Forces Arctic turvivaltraining centre near - In Resolute, known -locally as - “C tal City." =: “The -irony- of teaching “whites the” ‘kil. his own: “nie. ‘and = two °§ drapes. Undercover parking. Central Location - Controlled Entry, - pe INTRODUCING: x _ woopcreEn spans : 4832 Lazelle Ave... : xe 4 ay 9. Rental. Applications. are ‘now. b& y . taken for ‘occupancy March. 1 7 pe FEATURING: 5 bedrosm: | Fireplace in every unit.” Hy - Dishwasher, Fridge & Stove included. *, Bright; large | Bay Windows ‘with ca or coor -Spacious open ‘beam bedrooms with En Suites: -Grand staircase and bright halls. a : " Ground floor apartments with’ Private ‘Gardiny. B Ceramic tiled kilchen floors &. bathraoms. mo Cablevision ‘hook-up avallables 3: Ne '.To' view or for: further’ information “7 R Mr. William Saumure: at - base bar and by. regular. & : H cumber of Inultsayho can “T teach them, ndt fost how | to build an igloo, b but how tw bunt," he says. 4 eet CT rT