The Chinook Project

( Caitlin, AVC class of 2015, travelled to Nain and Sheshatshiu with the Chinook Project) My name is Caitlin Matters and I have lived on...

"It's a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you." My name is...

The first Team of the Chinook Project is already in Nain, Labrador. Pictured are Meghan Levangie, Dr. Peter Foley, Paul Fenton, Dr. Becky...

I have so many stories to tell – stories of the people I met, the places I saw, and the patients I helped. But most of all, there’s...

I went to Labrador for the dogs. However, once we arrived, it soon became apparent that it might be the people who would leave a more...

"Awesome" is a word that people say quite a lot these days, especially if, like me, they happen to be from California. It's a regular...

Well, it’s only been a little over 24 hours since we left Halifax, but it has been so jam packed with activities and new experiences that it feels like we’ve been gone for a week already! In fact, sitting here trying to decide what to write about, things keep popping into my head that I have already forgotten about in such a short amount of time. My excuse is adventure overload. We arrived In Goose Bay and were welcomed with a delicious BBQ put on by Becky Jackson, our Goose

June 11, 2012 9:46 am Beautiful Hopedale A quick update to let you know that for the first time this summer, Chinook is taking two separate teams to visit two separate communities in northern Labrador. Our first team heads out today, to visit the beautiful community of Hopedale. We haven't even left Charlottetown, and already we've had a warm welcome and lots of help, especially from Hopedale RCMP, Kim Dicker, and Patty Pottle who have helped take supplies, organized the wh

September 12, 2011 Life on the “streets” is the way it is for most dogs in Natuashish, and with 800 other dogs to contend with, life is tough; in fact, it is true survival of the fittest, and the stakes are high. Thus, imagine our delight when, on our arrival at the clinic one morning, we found that three of the most memorable patients seen by the Chinookers of the previous year had found their way back to the fire hall and were doing well! Farley, left and Blue Eyes Farley’

2011/8/29I In 2009, Nicole Cummings participated as a student on the Chinook Project (Cambridge Bay/Kugluktuk). She kept a blog for us, then, which is still available on the CBC website (http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chinookproject/). This past summer, we were so very fortunate to have DR. Nicole (who now practises in Massachusetts) volunteer her time as an instructor with the Project. She was an incredible mentor and teacher, and we've asked her to write the first blog p

February 7, 2012 One of the most valuable lessons I learned during my time with the Chinook project was the importance of resourcefulness in medicine; and my best teacher was Sookie, a small dog that was flown in from another community to visit the clinic we had set up in Makkovik. When Sookie was anesthetized prior to surgery, he stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest. Our rustic clinic had access to the basic emergency drugs, but we had no vital, life saving equipme

A series of posts from the trip of 2009, not published on the website. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chinookproj...

A series of posts from the 2009 trip. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chinookproject/posts/final_blog.html...

A series of posts from the 2009 trip, not published on website before. Friday, May 22, 2009 | Posted by Nicole Cummings & Shawn MacKenzie...

A series of posts, not published on the website before, from the 2009 Chinook trip. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/feature...

A series of posts from the 2009 trip, not published on the website before. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chinook...

A series of posts from the 2009 Chinook trip, not published on the website before. The team moves from Kugluktuk ro Cambridge Bay and has...

A series of posts from the trip of 2009 , not published on the website before. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chi...

A series of posts from the trip of 2009, not published on the website before. Originally posted at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/chinook...

A series of posts from the trip of 2009, never before published on this website. Originally published at http://www.cbc.ca/pei/features/c...