After it’s done, he’ll join an official motorcade heading back up the road to Tuk. Nasogaluak, mayor of the Northwest Territories hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, will drive down 120 kilometres of brand-new, two-lane, all-weather gravel to Inuvik. Replacing a seasonal ice road, the new highway is the country’s first permanent link to its Arctic coast. TUKTOYAKTUK, N.W.T—At 6 a.m. on Wednesday, in the arctic cold and darkness of the Mackenzie Delta, Darrel Nasogaluak will fire up his vehicle and head out on Canada’s newest and most exotic road trip. It would also like a road reaching up the Mackenzie Valley to open that region for tourism and development.

Source: thestar November 12, 2017 18:33 UTC