The ice roads are melting - Windspeaker.com

The ice roads are melting Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share   By Xavier Kataquapit Extreme cold weather is part of life every winter on the James Bay coast. The cold was normal for my parents who were both born on the land during a time when people didn’t have very much. My late father Marius Kataquapit was a trapper and hunter that learned to live and thrive on the land from the time he was a child. Whenever we put on modern parkas with new linings and features to keep us warm, dad often reminded us that he didn’t have much to wear for warmth when he was growing up. Back then, he said he wa…