Hannah Tooktoo, an Inuk mother from Nunavik, Que., descended from her bike on Thursday, August 8, 2019, 55 days after pedalling across the country to raise awareness to the suicides that are ravaging her community.
Jack Anawak was eight years old in 1956, the year the doctors came to his family's home in their tiny Arctic community and took his mother south to treat her tuberculosis.
It's cool and cloudy as Don Sessions, wearing a toque and a good, solid jacket, hops off an inflatable boat that has ferried him from his cruise ship to shore.
Reneltta Arluk wanted to acknowledge the origins of the story told in her Stratford Festival production "The Breathing Hole," so the director took the project to the North.