Rankin Inlet Healing Facility & a Caribou Concoction

While in Rankin Inlet, we visited the territory’s new low to medium security correctional centre for men - the Rankin Inlet Healing Facility.  Why, on a food-centric road trip, would we be visiting a correctional facility?  Well, everyone’s gotta eat (as my grandfather says “if you don’t eat, you’ll fall apart!”), and as it turns out, there’s a pretty interesting story to be told about the Healing Centre’s cafeteria.   

Ancient Sewing Needles, Caribou Stomachs & Inuit Artifacts

Let’s travel back quickly to the museum in Churchill when, among other things, my eyes fixated on thousand year old sewing needles, hand-carved from bones.  As soon as I saw them, I became keenly aware that I know nothing about survival.  I take things like sewing needles, which I use only for the odd, wayward button, completely for granted.