Train ride up north

I was riding in a train with a group of people.  We were riding in Canada and heading north.  I was sleeping and somebody woke me up to look at the scenery.  There was a peak of a mountain that went very high and ended in a sharp peak.  Everybody said it was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen.  Eventually we reached the end of the train ride and we had to travel by foot from there.  I was headed to a city on the edge of the arctic circle that had less than 20 inhabitants.  I was going there to live.  When I got to the town the northern lights were in full blaze.