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Aklavik

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A hour east of Williams LK BC .in the rain forrest . I have a like new metal shaper 4000 lbs sitting in Port Coquitlam. I'm desperate to find a place to store it for a couple months . Can't get it in to my homestead til may long weekend also a big 1895 flat belt drill press frame . I stripped the drill press . Have 80percent of parts home . Reaching out .
 
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Aklavik

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Six O Two said:
Hello from the Kootenays.

Is there a story behind your username?

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Aklavik is the town the mad trapper is buried in . Between Inuvik and tuktoyaktuk I worked and lived in tuk .Inuvik deline etc fixing heavy equipment .generators etc etc .it's a seldom used name . Unlike Dave . Try and get Dave or any other common user name in 2022. U have to add twenty numbers and 6 underscores . And even then it's iffy .aklavik works first time everytime
 
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Rauce

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Aklavik said:
Aklavik is the town the mad trapper is buried in . Between Inuvik and tuktoyaktuk I worked and lived in tuk .Inuvik deline etc fixing heavy equipment .generators etc etc .it's a seldom used name . Unlike Dave . Try and get Dave or any other common user name in 2022. U have to add twenty numbers and 6 underscores . And even then it's iffy .aklavik works first time everytime
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I’d like to get up there some day, my dad was born in aklavik. My grandfather lived up there for about 20 years
 
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Aklavik

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That's super cool .there is a year round round road from Inuvik to tuk now but only a winter road to aklavik ..shoot me a email il send u some pics this evening of the ice road .very hearty pioneer types there back in the day .Firth girls McPherson's etc . Jonas in aklavik is a character never had a job .lived his entire life hunting and selling grizzlies polar bears sheep and goats to taxidermists in Ontario .I actualy met him in Whitehorse . Then worked with his cousins at the itkil gas plant by the aklavik turnoff
 
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Rauce

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Yeah they were up there a long time ago, my grandfather was a missionary and WWI vet who went to the North in the 20’s. Died before I was born but he seems to have been a tough guy. My aunt sent me a summary of some of his journals recently, in the winter of ‘46 after moving to northern Quebec he took his dog team from Inukjuak north to Saluitt and then south all the way to Moosenee… 2300 miles.
 
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Aklavik

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Hard times make hard men . It was a different era .it ended in the 60s when the RCMP shot all the sled dogs. Been a down hill slide ever since
 
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