 Good morning, everybody. It's March 15th, 2022 when I'm filming this. It's a beautiful morning outside We're talking like minus two Celsius, which is what like 35 Fahrenheit somewhere in there It's right around the freezing point of water. Anyways Minus two and it's supposed to go above zero every single day this week Finally with the warm temperatures obviously come the mess, so it's going to be a very messy day I'm gonna make sure we have plenty of washer fluid We're gonna need it today is turning into an overnight I Have a trailer that's waiting for me up in Norway house, Manitoba This is further north than I have ever been in my own province of Manitoba The furthest north I've been and has been up to Gypsumville or st. Martin up on highway 6 That's only halfway to where we're going today. We're going all the way up highway 6 practically all the way to the end of the earth Halfway up the province to very close to where the road literally ends and there are no more roads going north There's a trailer up there, and we're gonna pull it back down here tomorrow But I have to be up there 9 a.m. Tomorrow to pick up this trailer. It's a nine hour drive We'll eight to nine hour drive So obviously I'm gonna head up there right now Sleep there pick up the trailer in the morning pull it on down here bring it to where it needs to go And then go home. So good thing. We're in the western star. The only thing is I wasn't prepared food wise I always have my bedding with me and everything I need for an overnight And I didn't bring socks extra socks. I know drop the ball trucker Josh I took all my socks out of my bag to wash them so that they were they were all clean, right? I forgot to put an extra pair back in so You know what you you know exactly where we are right now Not a Timmy snow, but that's a good idea. Maybe we should stop by there Walmart I Need to pick up a sheet for this bed too because in my shop you'll notice that I have that red sheet Over that table that I have in there temporarily acting as a tablecloth So I don't get grease and dirt and filth on that table But that was the sheet from the truck it had a hole in it anyway, so I needed a new one anyways So we're gonna go to Walmart. We're gonna get a new sheet for the bed here some socks and food I have a fridge here. I turned it on as soon as I Realized we're going up north so it's cooling off right now we're gonna get some food for tonight and tomorrow and Then we'll start making our way up the great Manitoba Highway 6 Better be careful when we're up there. We don't want to encounter any polar bears or anything. I Don't think polar bears are that far south We do have polar bears in Manitoba, but they're further north in Churchill and I can't get there by road Actually this time of year. I probably could there's ice roads and winter roads going up there Most of the year you have to take rail or fly into Churchill and that's a town up in northern Manitoba That's famous for polar bears if you want to see polar bears they do tours up there I'm gonna shout out my province here a little bit you go up to Churchill Manitoba. They do polar bear tours At least they did I'm assuming they got those going again. They probably stopped for a while because of the whole COVID thing but Guessing that they're on board now today when I'm filming this is March 15th So all of our mandates are dropped in our province today. So officially today. We're back to normal At least legally back to normal. Everyone still has the option if they want to But yeah, all the signs I've been noticing everywhere. I go all the signs for like masks and stuff. They've all come down So that's it's good positive move forward. I think so maybe the the polar bear tours up north are going again You guys want to go check out the polar bears go check out and check them out and support my province We don't got much going for us, but we got our polar bears. I Literally washed this truck last night. It was sparkling clean this morning All you can do is keep trying right at least we don't have yesterday's dirt on here This is all today's dirt. This is all just from this morning Man there you go. There's another thumbnail for you All right, we're all filled up with food got my bed set up there got a new sheet for this bed It's rock and roll. Let's take this down. It's gonna slide down. Let's put that there Everything else is in its place as it should be We got snacks we got food we got something to drink We just need to get fuel yet. I'm at like three-quarter tank, but I'm going way up north and I don't know what's up there I don't know where the fuel stops are So I'm gonna go and fuel up before we leave the Winnipeg area here. I See you there. I got mirrors There's one more car coming out for this guy Yeah Isn't tight. Thank you. Oh Oh didn't see that common. Oh speed bump the good thing. We weren't spading We're in the southwest corner of Winnipeg right now. This is McGilvery just up here I'm gonna take McGilvery to the West perimeter and take the West perimeter up to Headingley where we're gonna fuel up I'm pretty sure there's probably petrol pass fueling stations up highway six, I'm pretty sure of it I just I just don't know for sure, you know Grab fuel to petrol pass on the north side of Winnipeg on route 90 instead for those of you familiar with the city It's this little congested truck stop here. That's always jam-packed and people always park in the no parking zones Like this guy is here. I gotta figure out a way of getting out of here Now it's supposed to park in the driveway, but people always do No way to get out of here except through that little driveway right there just rolled through Pine Moontang First Nation and Gypsumville is right down the road here or around the corner and that's the furthest north I've ever been in my home province You know, I got all excited before and I just realized I have been this far north once or twice This is highway 60 it goes to the paw I have gone up highway six and turned on to the 60 before so now Now we've officially Entered uncharted territory. Okay. It was a false alarm before false alarm Now I'm officially further north than I ever have been in the province If I do false alarms, we'll see what happens for the rest of the evening, but I'm pretty sure this is it We still got about five hours left to go just under Sure gets dark up here Wow You can't see anything YouTube is not very good with low light. So even when I Even when I show you guys something that I can see Nicely in the back of my camera for some reason when you upload on to YouTube it darkens everything and when you try to brighten it It ruins it. So there's something in the upload process or something That sort of makes low light situations on YouTube tough to tough to share But I did find out some interesting information My mom has some friends up here and I'd let mom and dad know that I was going up the Norway house I like letting people know where I'm going especially when I'm going somewhere new and somewhere far north or something Some were very secluded. I'll tell my wife where I'm going I'll tell my parents where I'm going just so that people know where I'll be just in case, you know and She messages me Yesterday because this is the next morning already. I already slept. I just woke up as you can tell And she said oh You have to cross an ice road to get to Norway house What? No, I said anything about an ice road. There's a bridge. I'm pretty sure there's a bridge I don't got an ice road and I look at the map and it says there's a ferry. I mean, okay All right, so there's a small ferry. It's a cable ferry It's about a half-kilometer Stretch like a river that we got to cross over. Oh, there's a cable ferry. I don't know if it's an ice road I look more into it in a research. Oh The cable ferries closed for winter It's an ice road So I'm going to be crossing over the ice In my truck and then on the way back with a loaded trailer for the first time ever And I'm a little nervous I'm gonna continue this vlog now Time is not 6 30 a 6 45 in the morning It'll probably be light by the time I get there, but like I said these low light situations on YouTube make it very difficult to share things So by the time we leave Norway house and tomorrow's vlog It'll definitely be light out and I'll be able to show you a little bit of ice road trucking if we're lucky we'll get into this vlog today yet But we'll see what happens when we get there. I'm kind of hoping the Sun will be up That's why I slept on this side of the river I was gonna go straight to my customer in Norway house and sleep there overnight But once I found out that there was an ice crossing. I'm like, yeah, I Know on the website it says is like it's probably better to cross at night because it's colder The ice gets thicker I guess but I've never crossed the ice before and I don't want to get lost and I don't want to do it at night my first time I'm a little nervous So we're gonna go there now We know the first thing in the morning crossover we bob tailing with no trailer first so that's okay and On the way back we'll have a loaded trailer on the ice Over a rushing river well not a rushing river if it was a rushing river it wouldn't freeze over but it's like I think it's the Nelson River What river is it that we're crossing? Because we're way up north here. I have never been this far north in Manitoba in my life We got a crossover What is this here? Just looking on the map. I'll show it to you on the map here as well Josh remember to go and put the map on there for the good people So they can see what I'm talking about. Ah, here we go Remember to put the map up here Josh Okay, so we're crossing Right here What is this? Is this a river? Some kind of river doesn't stop telling me here Maybe you guys can see it on my screen here that I'm looking at it's not telling me what river that is but Yeah, usually it's called the Ross Island ferry it goes I guess from Ross Island to Norway house And I don't know why it's called Norway house. I don't I believe it's a First Nations reserve. I Don't think it's a Norwegian settlement, but it's called Norway house All right. Well, I don't know what it's called, but we got to go over the water Let's go out here. There's a Timmy's on the way. So at least we get some Timmy's Course, there's a Timmy's on the way or in the middle of nowhere. Northern Manitoba. Of course, there's a Timmy's Little bit of a narrow bridge. Oh Man this road is so rough coming up here Seriously all the way up All the way up from the Winnipeg perimeter all the way up the Norway house the road is just terrible We're getting close to the ice crossing now There's a sign coming up here reduced speed ahead What is this a Norway house ferry one kilometer? Except from what I hear the ferry Isn't operating right now. We got to drive across the ice ourselves Okay Detour ahead All right detour means going over the ice. Let's clean our window here so we can see what we're doing I'm gonna lie. I'm a little nervous. I've never crossed ice before There's the river right there. We got to drive across it. You guys ready? Sorry Google ferries closed We are driving across the river here I'm sure it's not gonna be as freaky as I'm making it out to be in my mind right now, but You know, there's a first for everything Status is open maximum weight of thirty nine thousand five hundred kilograms That's about eighty thousand pounds or so eighty eighty ninety thousand maybe Okay, are we on the water yet? No, we're still on the that's the edge Right there. That's the riverbank. We're gonna drive down. There's a car coming this way We're going that way Okay, here we go. We're officially on the ice I'm driving across water right now my first time ever I've lived in Canada my whole life This is my first time ever driving across an actual ice road. It's only half a kilometer long Okay, so it's not like we're driving across a lake or anything, but that actually wasn't that bad, eh? Okay, okay, we're almost there. All right this southern boy wants to get off the ice now Okay, we're on the banks banks, okay, there we go. We made it We didn't fall through All right, there's a first for everything drove across the river today. I was so nervous. That wasn't that bad at all I guess I just never seen one in person before Trevor Josh ice road trucker. It's official. This is Norway house that we're coming into here Once again has nothing to do with the Norwegians as far as I know maybe at one point it did but Now this is a A Indian reservation or a indigenous reservation first-nation reservation So what that means for people who aren't in Canada is The first peoples of Canada have this land protected for their exclusive use By the crown by the Queen of Canada So it is reserves Specifically and exclusively for them if I wanted to live and work here. I couldn't I'm not allowed to live here or work here I'm allowed to come in here and deliver and pick up stuff and you know visit Yeah, I'm allowed to be here, but I can't actually live here and work here See up there. The sign says Welcome to Norway house Cree nation in God we trust. Oh Oh They have the same slogan here as the United States Here's a fun Mennonite fact for you though seeing as I have Mennonite heritage and the reason I'm in Manitoba right now Is the Mennonite immigration of 1874? when the Mennonites Wrote up their deal and their treaty with the crown They were also given reserves We had the East Reserve and the West Reserve in southern Manitoba present a Steinback and Winkler that land there was also reserved for our exclusive use and Was protected under the crown the same way this land is protected for the people here however, the crown did not honor their promise to us and did not Protect that treaty or that agreement and they broke their promise to us And so far the crown still protects this land for the people here, but Our reservations that it was called it was called the East Mennonite Reserve and the West Mennonite Reserve They were established 1874 I believe and in the early 1900s The government went back on that and took that status away They're a little fun fact for you and that's the trailer we came here to get bringing us all the way down to Stonewall, Manitoba What a seven-hour driver so 78 hour drive down south It's like an office trailer a Portable portable office. I'm gonna end the vlog here. So thanks for watching today tune in tomorrow I got to pull this across the ice Let's hope it don't fall through