An obituary for William B. Kemp, who died on Jan 5, 2020, is presented. Following six years as an instructor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, Kemp moved to McGill University in 1970, quickly becoming an integral contributor to the Department of Geography's developing Human Ecology and Northern Cultural programs, bringing with him a special focus on the Indigenous cultures of Canada's Arctic and Subarctic. Kemp was an ethnographer, cultural ecologist, archaeologist and consummate map maker. His research among the Inuit of Baffin Island and Northern Québec was not only comprehensive, but also deeply insightful. During a year living with Killikti and his family at Imiligaarjuit, he learned Inuktitut, a skill that allowed him to look at Inuit and the North through two lenses.