There is equipment designed to filter salt water from ice floes, and tents made for temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit).
Moving military resources around the area is complex work that is carried out by Twin Otters, a strategic transport aircraft that can operate in rugged environments.
On the tarmac after a flight over vast expanses of snow, forests and frozen lakes, Major Marlon Mongeon, who pilots one of the aircrafts, told AFP that part of the military’s job is “to assert sovereignty of our borders and land.”
Canada has only a handful of northern military bases.
To monitor the north, it relies on Canadian Rangers, reservists stationed in remote areas throughout the Arctic, many of whom are from the country’s Indigenous communities.
They’re known as “the eyes and ears of the north,” and some say their numbers need boosting in order to meet Canada’s evolving challenges.
