Across the pages of a picture book, the northern lights dance over the Arctic landscape with brush strokes of bold colour, as caribou and muskox graze on the tundra and a bush pilot takes to the skies. 'Freddie the Flyer' chronicles the real exploits of Fred Carmichael, the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Canadian Arctic.
Fred Carmichael, the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Canadian Arctic, is seen sitting on a Cessna 185 at Shell Lake Dock, in an undated handout photo. Fred's exploits are being immortalized in a children's book entitled 'Freddie the Flyer'. Across the pages of a picture book, the northern lights dance over the Arctic landscape with brush strokes of bold colour, as caribou and muskox graze on the tundra and a bush pilot takes to the skies.
"If they want to be a pilot or anything else you really want to do, you need to find the people to help you get started," he wrote in an email. Carmichael, who is of Gwich'in and Scottish-Irish descent, grew up on a trapline outside of Aklavik, N.W.T. He said he began dreaming of flying when he was 12 after he was able to explore a red Stinson aircraft on skis that landed near his family's bush camp to deliver supplies.Later as a teenager in Aklavik, Carmichael said he would watch Pentecostal minister Don Violette work on his plane.
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