Jamie loves to travel and learn how people survived, thrived, and multiplied in every region of the world. He is a Registered Professional Archaeologist who calls the Yukon home and is a huge fan of Robert Service. He has conducted more than four decades of archaeological work with projects in Nunavut, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Japan, Honduras, Hawaii, and Maine. Jamie is fluent in irony, comedy, and body language, and one of his most memorable Arctic experiences was riding an ivu.
Jamie was an employee of the Yukon Government in the 1980s, working as an archaeologist during the survey of Qikiqtaryuk (Herschel Island) and the Yukon North Slope, identifying and recording cultural resources. He also worked with the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in the 1990s, conducting archaeological survey and testing in the Lower Mackenzie River Valley and North Coast. His graduate studies focused on Arctic and Subarctic archaeology and the construction and use of an 18th-century semi-subterranean Aleutian longhouse on Unalaska Island, Alaska, under the direction of Allan McCartney, George Sabo, and Richard Condon. Jamie has overseen research and updates to the Government of Yukon’s Searching for Our Heritage Database for eight years, which included Inuvialuit materials from the western Arctic. He loves to see travelers make those small-world connections in the most unexpected locations.
