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Eenoolooapik
Eenoolooapik ( 1820 – 1847) was an Inuk guide. Eenoolooapik travelled to Britain in 1839 with Captain William Penny. He attracted considerable attention from the local population; when he contracted pneumonia, his health was tracked by the local media. He presented his map of Cumberland Sound to the British Navy in an effort to garner support for Penny's proposed expedition to the region. The proposal was denied, but Eenoolooapik nevertheless supported Penny in rediscovering Cumberland Sound in 1840.John Bennett & Michelle Filice (May 25, 2020)Eenoolooapik ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. He was the subject of an 1841 biography, ''A narrative of some passages in the history of Eenoolooapik, a young Esquimaux, who was brought to Britain in 1839, in the ship " Neptune" of Aberdeen: an account of the discovery of Hogarth's Sound: remarks on the northern whale fishery, and suggestions for its improvement, &c. &c.'', written by Alexander McDonald. His sister Taqulittuq Taqulittu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (surgeon)
Alexander McDonald (or M'Donald) (15 September 1817 – ) was a Scottish physician who served as assistant surgeon of HMS ''Terror'' on Franklin's lost expedition. Early life Alexander McDonald was born on 15 September 1817 in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland, to Robert McDonald and Elizabeth Stiven. His father was a silver snuff-box maker, apprentice to Charles Stiven. McDonald attended The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and graduated in 1838. Career To pay for medical school, McDonald spent his summers serving as ship's surgeon for Captain William Penny in the whaling industry. In 1839, Penny brought an Inuk traveler, Eenoolooapik, back with him to Scotland, and McDonald was introduced to the man and served both as his tutor and as his doctor when he contracted a respiratory infection. The next year when they returned to the Arctic, Eenoolooapik guided them to the whale-rich Tenudiakbeek inlet, which Penny christened Hogarth's Sound (now known to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumberland Sound
Cumberland Sound (french: Baie Cumberland; Inuit languages, Inuit: ''Kangiqtualuk'') is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a western arm of the Labrador Sea located between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula. It is approximately long and wide. Other names are ''Cumberland Straits,'' ''Hogarth Sound'', and ''Northumberland Inlet.'' Old Norse is ᚠᛁᛋᚦᚱᛁ ᚢᛒᚢᚴᚦᛁᛦ, fisþri ubukþiR. Small islands litter the stretch of water which was formed from glacial activity and meltwater produced from the receding glacier. The only settlement located on the shore of the sound on the Cumberland Peninsula is Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Pangnirtung. John Davis (English explorer), John Davis, the English explorer, went part way up the sound in 1585. After that it was unvisited by Europeans until 1839, when the Whaling in the United Kingdom, British whaler and explorer William Penny persuaded Eenoolooapik (brother of interp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taqulittuq
Taqulittuq ( iu, ᑕᖁᓕᑦᑐᖅ, i=no, often transliterated as Tookoolito; – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the ''Polaris'' expedition to reach the North Pole Biography Early life and family Taqulittuq was born at Cape Searle in the Cumberland Sound or Qikiqtaaluk Region, or Baffin Island area. Her brother, Eenoolooapik, traveled in 1839 with whaler William Penny to Aberdeen. Other relatives, Totocatapik and Kur-king, were also renowned as travelers. In 1852, Taqulittuq began learning English from a British whaler, William Barron. Travels In 1853, a whaling captain named John Bowlby (sometimes called Thomas Bowlby) brought her with Ipirvik and an unrelated child, Akulukjuk ("Harlookjoe"), to England. The three Inuit were exhibited in various venues thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inuk
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan, and also as Eskaleut. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate used in Nunavut. Inuit live throughout most of Northern Canada in the territory of Nunavut, Nunavik in the northern third of Quebec, Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut in Labrador, and in various parts of the Northwest Territories, particularly around the Arctic Ocean, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. With the exception of NunatuKavut, these areas are known, primarily by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, as Inuit Nunangat. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 classify Inuit as a distinctive group of Aboriginal Canadians who are not includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Penny
Captain William Penny (1809–1892) was a Scottish shipmaster, whaler and Arctic explorer. He undertook the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin. In 1840, Penny established the first whaling station in the Cumberland Sound area on Kekerten Island. Biography He was born on 12 July 1809 in Peterhead. He went to sea at the age of 12 his first trip being on the whaler ''Alert'' on a trip to Greenland under the command of his father. In 1832 he served as mate on the whaler ''Traveller'' under Captain George Simpson in Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay. On the latter trip in 1833 he was the first known European to see Exeter Sound. By 1839 he was master of the whaler ''Neptune'' and was again in Baffin Bay searching for a whale-rich inlet called Tenudiakbeek, eventually locating in July and renaming it Hogarth's Sound. In fact he had rediscovered Cumberland Sound. After a three year break in Aberdeen he returned to Cumberland Sound in 1844. In 1847 he commanded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity of the condition is variable. Pneumonia is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria, and less commonly by other microorganisms. Identifying the responsible pathogen can be difficult. Diagnosis is often based on symptoms and physical examination. Chest X-rays, blood tests, and culture of the sputum may help confirm the diagnosis. The disease may be classified by where it was acquired, such as community- or hospital-acquired or healthcare-associated pneumonia. Risk factors for pneumonia include cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sickle cell disease, asthma, diabetes, heart failure, a history of smoking, a poor ability to cough (such as following a stroke), and a weak immune system. Vaccines to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 Deaths
Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. * January 17 – St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded at Columbia University, New York City. * January 30 – Yerba Buena, California, is renamed San Francisco. * February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party (California-bound emigrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter; some have resorted to survival by cannibalism). * February 22 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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