1 Introduction Warming in Arctic regions since the late 1970s is reported to be almost four times that of the global rate (Rantanen et al., 2022) and has impacted several components of the Earth's cryosphere. As global temperatures continue to rise, there are implications for Northern Canada, whose socioeconomic and cultural systems are centered around ice and snow and where changing lake ice regimes are linked to the natural resource industry (Knoll et al., 2019; Mullan et al., 2017; T. D.
