The first original production between the CBC, APTN and Netflix.
The show is set in the fictional Arctic community of Ice Cove but the filming actually occurred in Iqaluit, the real-life capital and most populous city of the Arctic Canadian territory of Nunavut, which is also where Anna Lambe and Maika Harper are from.
The show's creators were touched by how the larger Inuit community bent over backwards to make featuring authentic costumes possible in North of North. Parkas and anything traditional were made in Nunavut, by Inuit artists and the earrings are also authentic Inuit earrings. According to the assistant costume designer "Ice Cove is a fictional town, so we wanted looks from every region, because almost every town has their own style".
According to an article on Netflix's website "Transporting all the sets to Iqaluit was a logistical feat. Most sets were built in Toronto, disassembled, and flown in for reassembly, with each piece put on pallets and packed to perfectly fit inside the cargo plane's fuselage. [The Production designer's] team even built a jig in the shape of the fuselage profile that each pallet had to pass through before leaving the workshop."
Walrus d--- baseball is a local form of baseball with many local variants. It's traditional to use fully any animal you hunt and let nothing go to waste, and, because there's not a lot of spare wood around, the bats have been replaced with walrus "appendages", which are strong enough as they naturally contain a baculum, a type of bone.