Hundreds of pounds of locally donated hockey gear arrives in Nunavut
NANAIMO — Kids on the other side of Canada are benefitting from a huge amount of local donations.
Cst. Josh Cook has made good on his promise to take donated hockey equipment from Nanaimo and central Vancouver Island, to his first posting after graduating RCMP Depot in Kinnigait, Nunavut (formerly known as Cape Dorsett).
The former VIU Mariner, who spend four years playing in Nanaimo, saw the need for gear in the far north, remote community of around 1,400 people, especially among the town’s youth.
“There’s obviously tons of ice in the Arctic, but a lot of kids didn’t have very much hockey gear…the skates were too small, they didn’t have sticks, they didn’t have gloves or helmets.”