Olympic flame's spotlight moves from Nunavut to Quebec communities
Published Tuesday November 10th, 2009
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The 2010 Olympic flame makes its first foray into "La belle province" Tuesday.
The torch relay for the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Games will move from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Tuesday morning to Sept-Iles, Quebec, Tuesday night. A few stops are scheduled in-between, including one in the community of Kuujjuaq where torchbearers will include hunter and fisher Cindy Koneak.
The torch will be carried into Newfoundland later in the week and will mark Remembrance Day with a stop at CFB Goose Bay, before arriving in St. John's Friday.
Monday, hundreds of spectators braved temperatures of -40 to cheer the flame as it was run through Resolute Bay, known in Inuktitut as "the place with no dawn."
The 106-day Olympic torch relay will span 45,000 kilometres and visit more than 1,000 communities.
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