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When you live at the Arctic Circle and work in hurricane alley

April 10, 2023 • Cathy Brais • Season 6 • Episode 5

Cathy Brais lives at Eagle Plains, kilometre 370 of the Dempster Highway, just shy of the Arctic Circle. Her job as a highway foreperson often takes her into an infamous stretch of road known as "hurricane alley." What's it like living and working on one of the loneliest stretches of highway in the world? Cathy says a place is what you make it.

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