As a take-off on the title of the popular CBC program “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” the Toronto Globe and Mail entitled its article “Little mosque on the tundra,” all about Muslims in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories.  Because of the very limited amount of sunlight during the winter months, prayer schedules are taken from those of their “southern” brethren in Edmonton, with sunrise prayers occurring in darkness. Yellowknife, with a population of around 20,000, is booming, largely because of mining for diamonds and other minerals and oil and gas production.  Many Muslims in town are cabbies.  People are arriving from all over Canada and from around the world.  However, as is common in frontier communities, there is a significant shortage of women, especially in this case of Muslim women.  Those females who arrive unaccompanied are apt to have the red carpet rolled out for them.  Some men bring partners from the Middle East, and other Muslims pitch in to cover transportation and general expenses involved in getting them to Yellowknife. After 9/11, there was some minor vandalism against the small mosque, but local clergy responded with pleas for tolerance, and Abdel Mejid, head of the mosque, has promoted interfaith communication activities.  At some 150 souls, Muslims comprise a bit under one per cent of the local population, but their numbers are increasing, and once Muslim single women hear about the male surplus those numbers are apt to go up more rapidly.