Canada’s Cultural Capital? How About Baffin Island

Okay, maybe not quite. But a new study says the desolate arctic island has more artists per capita than anywhere else in Canada. “Using data from the 2001 census, Hill Strategies Research Inc. discovered that of a total working population of 485 individuals in Cape Dorset, 110, or 22.7 per cent, were working as artists. That’s almost 30 times the national average of 0.8 per cent and more than double the country’s second-most-artistic municipality, British Columbia’s Squamish-Lillooet, between Vancouver and Whistler.”