Opinion

It’s been an exciting summer. Maybe a little too exciting for many because of the fires.

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Amid the chaos and confusion of Yellowknife’s first ever mass evacuation, by road and by plane, for some strange reason my mind kept visiting the tale of the sinking of the Titanic. It was a rather famous ship which sank on April 12, 1912. That was a long, long, time ago.

I dreamed of the people, gathering at the centre of the Sahtu, Great Bear Lake — fires spread all across the territory, making it the only safe place to be.

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Like most of the families that had to evacuate, we hemmed and hawed until the last minute about what we were going to do. We considered driving south, but we had no idea where to go. We thought about buying plane tickets, but the expense was way too much for our family of five. In a moment of sleepless clarity in the middle of the night before we left, my wife and I decided that it was best if we evacuated to Lutsel K’e by boat.