Brown’s life has been filled with activity: mushing
dog-teams down 70 miles of frozen river in 40-below blizzards,
constructing beautiful churches and other buildings from hand-cut spruce
logs, leading a native team on a 3,000-mile Centennial canoe race,
helping unionize a mine, photographing the northern wastes, working as a
medic, hunting herds of caribou, and painting realistic portraits of
northern life.
In 1971, Brown received permission from Rome to marry;
that summer, he and Margaret Steen, a native Northerner, were married by
Bishop Paul Piché.
Bern Will Brown has lived in Canada’s far North for over
fifty years. He and his wife, Margaret, continue to live at Colville
Lake, above the Arctic circle.
