Churchill at a Crossroads: The long road of integration between western science and local knowledge – Canada’s National Observer

January 6, 2025

This piece is the third in a series on conservation in Northern Manitoba. Read the first part here and the second here.

Chapter 7: Churchill’s two solitudes

The half-hour drive to the Churchill Northern Studies Centre is winding and bumpy, causing tires to spit gravel and dirt into the air. To the left is an expansive view of the bay littered with ice floes most of the year. To the right, the scarce trees, muskeg and arctic tundra give the land its quilt-like qualities.

From 1957 until about 1981, the road was used to access the Cold War-era Churchill rocket range, where scientific military men fired missiles and conducted research on the upper atmosphere. The researchers launched more than 3,500 rockets from launchers that still sit memorialized like abstract sculptures.

Read More: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/24/analysis/churchill-integration-western-science-Indigenous-knowledge