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For the first time, the four-member security team helping keep truckers safe on the Snap Lake Mine winter spur road is entirely comprised of women.

All four are members of Snap Lake’s protective services team.

The job entails driving the 30 km spur road from Snap Lake to the main Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road in Canada's Northwest Territories, monitoring and reporting on speed limits and the safety of all drivers, obtaining emergency services for transport vehicles and more. The winter road is only open for six to eight weeks in the winter, during which critical supplies, including fuel and equipment must be transported. Although Snap Lake Mine is going into care and maintenance, about five million litres of fuel and other materials were hauled to the site and a number of pieces of equipment were scheduled to be hauled out.

“On one of my first shifts I had to stay with a driver whose truck broke down for 11 hours one night in -40C, holding the flashlight for the mechanic once help came, just keeping the guy company,” says Kiera Lang, one of the members of the security team. “Everyone makes friends because you have to know they’ll help you out if you need it. It really becomes like a family out here.”