‘I know how it feels when you’re travelling, and you’re just eating restaurant food, or store sandwiches or whatever,’ says Diane Koe. If you were ever to get stuck on the highway in a blowing snowstorm, you’d do worse than to be trapped in Fort McPherson, N.W.T. Located on the Dempster Highway, hosting travellers – mostly truckers – who are waiting for the road to open is nothing new for the community.
