This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance--a shelter ...

Feeling chilly? Looking to flex your nascent engineering skills? Adventure Journal found this video of two Inuit men building an igloo in 1949—and it just might inspire the snowy settler within. If ...

Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North Postdoctoral Fellow, School for the Study of Canada, Trent University And these problems have historical roots. Canada has been running federal ...

The fourth- and fifth-graders at Berkshire Trail Elementary School used their math, science and social studies lessons to construct an igloo like the ones Inuits build. Led by fifth-grade teacher Hal ...

“Igloo” is derived from the Inuit word “igdlu” meaning “house.” It should actually be used to describe any Inuit or Eskimo dwelling, regardless of its construction. In the Eskimo culture, igloo ...