Tuktoyaktuk
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Sep 18, 2026
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It's so amazing to see what God can do.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
When I was in Tuktoyaktuk, we had this amazing man, David Nuxana.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And he had had such a broken life, you know, such a broken life.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And Jesus changed everything as he does for us.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
She and my dad knew each other back in 19... 62 or 63, I believe.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And they were up in Tuktoyaktuk.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And am I the one that's got the map, JT? All right, I've got the map.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
So I'll show that in a minute.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
No, no, sorry, not my birthplace.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
My young years when I was in missionary, my birthplace was Uganda, East Africa on the mission field.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And then my mom and dad left Uganda and they went up to Tuktoyaktuk.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And this is where, that's my picture, me amongst all my friends, Maureen and Debbie Pingo and Bertha, Mavis Jacobson, and some of the others.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
We're going to get into the meat of it all here pretty quick.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
But I went up to Tuktoyaktuk and we're going to pay tribute to a hero today.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It's her birthday.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It's Kay Gordon's 93rd birthday, and I want to play a tribute to her.
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Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
She, much like the Apostle Paul, gave herself to the work of God.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And I have to tell you that having followed her life for pretty much my whole life, my dad and her were friends 65 years ago.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
They were both in Tuktoyaktuk in the high north.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
That's why my dad loved Tuk, and that's how I ended up being a little girl in Tuktoyaktuk.
Justis PedersonHOST
Yeah.
Cole AkerstreamGUEST
Like, that's the, you know, if you can get a store to Tuktoyaktuk, Canada-
Justis PedersonHOST
Yeah
Cole AkerstreamGUEST
... you can get a store to Fi- uh, you can get product to Fiji, so it's, uh-
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Bob Steadward, of course, of the Paralympic fame and the Steadward, um, uh, wing at the U of A, and, uh, Randy Gregg's clinic.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
And we wound up doing a hockey clinic up in Tuktoyaktuk.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Oh.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Right on the Arctic Ocean- Yeah ...
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
We're gonna have some fun.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And, but I, I wanna tell you about an amazing conversation that I had with somebody in the north today, and I understood for the first time the price that my parents paid, um, my mom and dad giving up all the comforts of North America to go and to be in the Arctic Circle, in Tuktoyaktuk, on the Beaufort Sea.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Tuktoyaktuk is, like, way north.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It's, there's no trees.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It's above the tree, um, the tree line.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And my mom and dad, uh, went back up there.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Now, my, my dad had been up there 65 years ago, and, um, he, he just loved the north.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
So when we got kicked out of Africa by Idi Amin, and, um, he was, um, you know, forced to leave the land that he loved, the missionary work that he loved, then we went up to Tuktoyaktuk.
Al TuckSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They couldn't keep him up in Skinner's Pond.
Al TuckSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From Bonavista to Tuktoyaktuk, he spun the people's songs.
Al TuckSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Has someone spun one for you, Tom? I got to find out where he be playing.
Al TuckSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Go get your laptop, baby, log on to stompintomconnors.com. Stompintomconnors.com. Well, you talk about your humble beginnings, where he was born back in old St. John.
David WebbGUEST
But Kyla Kassoon Taylor is the owner of that.
David WebbGUEST
And he took me up to Tuktoyaktuk on a boat.
David WebbGUEST
And I did, you know, I went to like a traditional like hunting camp on the way that was like in the middle of the bay.
David WebbGUEST
Aaron grounds.
David WebbGUEST
But, but that one always sticks with me because I like, I talked, I wrote an article about that too.
David WebbGUEST
And I remember I had just come out of Ivovik national park in Yukon after five days of hiking and literally the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life.
David WebbGUEST
And then I had this plan to go on a day trip with him up to Tuktoyaktuk on a boat.
David WebbGUEST
And I was like, I was exhausted.
Scott SunderwaldHOST
You wake up damp.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
The trip, which we haven't talked about yet, but the next trip I did to Tuktoyaktuk, that was the case every day.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
This one, Highway 16, I actually reached out to a whole bunch of fire chiefs.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
So almost anywhere along the route where there was a fire department, I sent emails and I said, hey, this is what I'm doing.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
I put the paper in my pocket.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
Then on the way back, my sister Margaret was take me to her house where I was staying.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
And I found the paper and it said, ride your fat bike to Tuktoyaktuk.
Greg Van TighemGUEST
And I'm like, Tuktoyaktuk? I'm thinking of igloos and polar bears.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Which one am I? Which one am I? Yeah.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Isn't that amazing? So I was in Tuktoyaktuk for three years.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And these were my Inuit brothers and sisters.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
And there's Maureen.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
There's Debbie, Bertha, Mavis, and another girl.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
What was her name? Oh, you know the memory.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
It goes, right? But way up, up, up in Tuktoyaktuk.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
That was me.
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