Helen's Summer

Aarluk founder and President Helen Klengenberg has a remarkable summer planned. She will be traveling to some of the sites that matter most to her from her own life, rediscovering her biography in the landscapes of her childhood and adolescence. Here's the map:


A note from Helen's travel plan:

Klengenberg’s camp across the bay from the point on the north side.

113°32'48.99"W

69° 3'0.30"N

Going across about mid May and spend ice breakup until mid July. This is a family camp where mom and dad spent every summer before they moved to Kugluktuk. Grandpa Klengenberg and Grandma Kimnik lived here also. Kimnik died here and is out on the land somewhere: perhaps this is the summer she will be found and given a burial. Grandpa Klengenberg was going to build a school here, but customs confiscated his stuff - it had something to do with customs at Herschell Island. He didn’t make it back that year. He died on Vancouver Island; his son Patsy had him cremated and his ashes are spread around at this area also. So it is going to be interesting. I have not been back here for many years. This will be my first return - hopefully not the last.