Located just six degrees south of the Arctic Circle, the Canadian city of Whitehorse in the Yukon gets up to 20 hours of daylight in the summer months. For adventurers, all that Midnight Sun means a rare chance to explore Canada’s mountains, rivers and dense boreal forests – after-hours. 

Seeing the aurora borealis – the famous northern lights – in Canada’s Yukon is definitely bucket-list material. Imagine a green shimmer in the northern sky, slowly growing, then bursting across the horizon in wild arcs of colour. The experience is nothing short of mystical. 

The world within Cory Trépanier’s brain is an exotic collage of glittering icebergs, sweeping autumn-red tundra valleys and towering rock spires draped in glaciers.

There aren’t many places where you can spot beluga whales, icebergs, even polar bears while running a marathon. But you just might in Nunavut’s High Arctic during the annual Northwest Passage Marathon.

From my vantage point at exactly 66 degrees, 33 minutes north – the Arctic Circle as it intersects the Dempster Highway – Canada’s vastness is impossible to ignore.

Piloting a small Cessna over the mountains and glaciers of Kluane National Park is the best job ever.

The first time I saw the Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis– I was lying on a beach in Ontario’s Killbear Provincial Park.

Beams of light swirled gracefully across the sky, curlicuing and filigreeing the night. Lime and pink, green and hints of indigo. A watercolour masterpiece that moved.

Teresa Earle has spent 15 years exploring Canada’s North, but she still has a yearning to see more. With bucket lists all the rage, we asked Earle to come with her own life list for discovering new lands North of Sixty, delivered to our media centre one amazing experience at a time.