Polaris tops salary list

The wealthiest community in Canada is the Polaris mine site on Little Cornwallis Island in the Arctic, according to Statistics Canada.

The federal government agency says that the median income in 1992 in the community, where Cominco and Pine Point Mines extract lead and zinc from underground operations and which has a population of 200, was $92,800. Polaris, in production since 1982, sits 75 miles from the magnetic North Pole. The national median wage (half of the population makes more than the median income, and half makes less) that year was $18,600.