Arctic village residents share hopes, fears for future with opening of new highway

Source: Jackie Dunham, CTV News, October 12, 2017 

Eileen Jacobson was born and raised in Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories.

At 60 years old, she works as a tour guide and one of only two taxi drivers in the tiny hamlet of approximately 900.

Nestled on the shores of the Arctic Ocean with unforgiving temperatures that dip below -40 C in the winter, the community is isolated from the rest of the country. The only way to access Tuktoyaktuk is by boat, bush plane or winter ice road.

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