Up Sucker Creek

Up Sucker Creek
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Friday, January 9, 2015

Home building in 1949

How to Build an Igloo
CITYLAB  January 6, 2015  Mike Byrnes

With the first snowfall of 2015 arriving along parts of the U.S. east coast today, it's a good time to review all the important winter safety tips: drive slowly, shovel your sidewalk, and stack snow blocks in a continuous spiral in order to create a structurally sound igloo.

This last tip comes from the National Film Board of Canada's 1949 classic, How To Build an Igloo, republished on the organization's YouTube page this morning. In it, cameras follow two Inuits who have ventured out from their family's winter camp to trade at a post along the Hudson Bay, where mostly flat lands provide no relief from the brutal cold.  

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