Continuing our popular series, "Why does anyone live in Canada, eh?", we should like to make viewpagers acquainted with Great Bear Lake:

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Great Bear Lake is located in the prestigious Arctic Circle neighborhood and is anchored at its northeast tip by Fort Confidence at the mouth of the Decease River which drains the Dismal Lakes. Charmingly-named Port Radium confidently holds down the eastern shore, or ice, line while Decline is situated at the balmy southwest tip.

Great Bear Lake is the largest lake in Canada, 4th largest in North America, 8th in the world. It's big. And deep, average: 235'--average--maximum: 1463'. And cold: so cold that they shiver even when trying to write "Great Bear Lake" so it comes out "GroBer Barensee;" so cold that it is frozen from November to July which leaves three months for these guys to do whatever it is they're doing:

What are you doing.