High Arctic Company Town

High Arctic company town: Since the zinc mine closed in 2002, the High Arctic company town of Nanisivik has been gradually wiped off the map, according to Globe and Mail. Letter from the editor: How Canadas North has become a test of nation-building for us all This is part of The North , a Globe investigation into the unprecedented change to the climate, culture and politics of Canadas last frontier. Join the conversation with #GlobeNorth . The indoor pool and skating rink are gone from the once-thriving community at the northern tip of Baffin Island, some 3,100 kilometres north of Ottawa. So are the former residents and their houses all of them. The church was dragged across the sea ice to the neighbouring hamlet of Arctic Bay pop. 820 . More Related to this Story (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.