Nueltin Lake (
Chipewyan
The Chipewyan ( , also called ''Denésoliné'' or ''Dënesųłı̨né'' or ''Dënë Sųłınë́'', meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified ...
: , meaning "sleeping island lake") straddles the
Manitoba
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Nunavut
Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...
border in Canada. The lake, which has an area of , is predominantly in Nunavut's
Kivalliq Region
The Kivalliq Region (; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑭᕙᓪᓕᖅ ) is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. It consists of the portion of the mainland to the west of Hudson Bay together with Southampton Island and Coats Island. The regional ce ...
, and on the Manitoba side there is the
Nueltin Lake Airport which serves the
fishing
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lodge. The lake is split into two parts by a set of
narrows
A narrows or narrow (used interchangeably but usually in the plural form), is a restricted land or water passage. Most commonly a narrows is a strait, though it can also be a water gap.
A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted ...
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It is drained by the
Thlewiaza River
The Thlewiaza River is a river in Canada. Although some sources define the river as originating out of Nueltin Lake, according to the Canadian Geographical Names Database the river begins at Snyder Lake in northwestern Manitoba. From there the ri ...
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History
Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy
Count Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (3 February 1903 Tula Governorate – 28 October 1970 New York City) was a U.S. Army Colonel and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's envoy in Tibet. He was one of the founders of Marineland of Florida, of the Bahamas Na ...
, the grandson of count Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
, stayed at the Revillon Frères
Revillon Frères (Revillon Brothers) was a French fur and luxury goods company, founded in Paris in 1723. Then called ''la Maison Givelet'', it was purchased by Louis-Victor Revillon in 1839 and soon, as Revillon Frères, became the largest fur ...
Post of Windy Lake by Nueltin Lake in the winter of 1928–1929. He was in a group attempting to get film footage of the migrating caribou for the William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler's production, '' The Silent Enemy'', one of the last and greatest of the silent films, released in 1930.
The American naturalist, Francis Harper (biologist)
Francis Harper (17 November 1886 – 17 November 1972) was an American naturalist known for the study of the 18th-century American naturalists John and William Bartram. His research included studies of the Okefenokee Swamp and fieldwork in th ...
with funding from the United States National Science Foundation
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, undertook a study of the barren-ground caribou in 1947 in the Nueltin Lake area with research assistants, including Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Can ...
, resulting in the publication of Harper's book entitled ''Caribou of Keewatin.'' Inuit artist Luke Anowtalik, who was fifteen at the time, was featured in this publication.
In 1949, the Government of Canada
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forcibly relocated an Inuit
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group, the Ihalmiut
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed ''Kamilikuak''), as ...
, to Nueltin from Ennadai Lake
Ennadai Lake is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is long, and wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River. A section of the Kazan River from the outlet of Ennadai Lake to Baker Lake, was designated as a part of the ...
but the hunting was poor and they did not stay in the Nueltin area.To Improve the Lives of Aboriginal People
See also
*List of lakes of Nunavut
This is an incomplete list of lakes of Nunavut, a territory of Canada.
Larger lake statistics
"The total area of a lake includes the area of islands. Lakes lying across provincial boundaries are listed in the province with the greater lake are ...
*List of lakes of Canada
This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface ar ...
* P. G. Downes
References
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Lakes of Kivalliq Region
Lakes of Manitoba
Borders of Nunavut
Borders of Manitoba
Former populated places in the Kivalliq Region