You circled a huge area, but it is not as big as it seems on traditional geographic projections. There is a lot of wildlife, of cours : penguins and polar bears, arctic foxes and wolves. There is a road up to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. This territory has a population of 44 000. Nunavut has a population of a bit more than 39 000, mostly Inuit. The majority of people in these territories live in a few settlements, the largest being Yellowknife and Iqaluit. The main economic activity is mining (gold, tungsten, diamonds, uranium…). There is abundant space for hydro and wind power development. There are also huge reserves of fossil fuels, most of them untapped yet. The Northwest passage is still frozen for most of the year, but global warming is changing things fast in the North. It is very hard to grow food in these areas, so most of it has to be imported from the South. The Canadian military is also present in the area. Bases such as Alert are an important part of the NORAD defence system. Indigenous people have suffered years of abuse, forced settlement, and residential schools, many of them suffering from intergenerational trauma. The federal government, responsible for providing housing and accommodation for them, has often been blamed for negligence, leading to surge of extinct diseases such as tuberculosis. Still, a few hundreds of Indigenous militiamen remain involved in protecting Canadian sovereignty by being part of the legendary Canadian Rangers. The region is a huge colonial expanse, mainly being used by the South for extraction of valuable resources with minimal care for the people living there, a "Wild North" that will probably become a theatre of tensions in the coming decades as many world players such as Russia and the United States get interested in the shipping lines and resources of the area.