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The story behind “Arctic Predator”
OTTAWA – In the early 2000s, I was a reporter and editor for Nunavut News/North newspaper in Iqaluit in the recently-created territory of Nunavut. A fascination with Inuit art, not true crime, drew me to Cape Dorset in 2005. While there, I befriended a woman who told me a harrowing tale – in the 1970s and 80s a school teacher named Edward Horne had molested many boys who lived in Cape Dorset. Her brothers were among Horne’s victims.
Once the darling of the education department, Horne hid a terrible secret from parents, colleagues, friends, and his wife. He was a sexual predator. From his arrival in the Eastern Arctic in 1971 until his arrest in 1985, Horne’s predations on boys would leave a trail of destruction in Canada’s North.
Horne was eventually caught, but he could just as easily have gotten away with his crimes. His violations of children were uncovered by chance.
“Arctic Predator” (February 2025, Dundurn Press) is the first full-scale examination of Horne’s crimes against the children of Nunavut – a story that took me 20 years to complete.