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Indigenous Peoples In Northern Canada
The Indigenous peoples in Northern Canada consist of the First Nations in Canada, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit located in Canada's provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, three territories: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. Inuit communities Northwest Territories All Inuit communities in the Northwest Territories are part of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. * Aklavik * Inuvik * Paulatuk * Sachs Harbour * Tuktoyaktuk * Ulukhaktok Nunavut *Arctic Bay (''Ikpiarjuk'' ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ) *Arviat (ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ) *Baker Lake, Nunavut, Baker Lake (''Qamanittuaq'', ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ) *Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Bathurst Inlet (''Kingoak'') *Cambridge Bay (''Iqaluktuuttiaq'') *Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Chesterfield Inlet (''Igluligaarjuk'', ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒑᕐᔪᒃ) *Clyde River, Nunavut, Clyde River (''Kangiqtugaapik'', ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ) *Coral Harbour (''Salliit'', ᓴᓪᓖᑦ) *Gjoa Haven (''Uqsuqtuuq'', ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ) *Grise Fiord (''Aujuitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Canada
Northern Canada, colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics. Politically, the term refers to the three territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. This area covers about 48 per cent of Canada's total land area, but has less than 1 per cent of Canada's population. The terms "northern Canada" or "the North" may be used in contrast with ''the far north'', which may refer to the Canadian Arctic, the portion of Canada that lies north of the Arctic Circle, east of Alaska and west of Greenland. However, in many other uses the two areas are treated as a single unit. __TOC__ Definitions Subdivisions As a social rather than political region, the Canadian North is often subdivided into two distinct regions based on climate, the ''near north'' and the ''far north''. The different climates of these two regions result in vastly different vegetation, and therefore very different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker Lake, Nunavut
Baker Lake (Inuktitut syllabics: ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ 'big lake joined by a river at both ends', Inuktitut: ''Qamani'tuaq'' 'where the river widens') is a hamlet in the Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut on mainland Canada. Located inland from Hudson Bay, it is near the nation's geographical centre, and is notable for being Nunavut's sole inland community. The hamlet is located at the mouth of the Thelon River on the shore of Baker Lake. The community was given its English name in 1761 from Captain William Christopher who named it after Sir William Baker, the 11th Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. History In 1916, the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post at Baker Lake, followed by Anglican missionaries in 1927. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been in the area for fifteen years before establishing a post at Baker Lake in 1930. In 1946 the population was 32, of which 25 were Inuit. A small hospital was built in 1957, followed by a regional school the next year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kugluktuk
Kugluktuk (, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; ), formerly known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet located at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island. It is the westernmost community in Nunavut, near the border with the Northwest Territories. The traditional language of the area is Inuinnaqtun and is written using the Latin alphabet, rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Cambridge Bay, Bathurst Inlet, and Umingmaktok, syllabics are rarely seen and are used mainly by the Government of Nunavut. History In 1982, a division plebiscite was held. While approximately 80% of the population in what is now Nunavut voted in favour of division, Coppermine was one of only two communities to vote against division. Cambridge Bay was the other. In June 2004, a fuel line broke in the centre of Kugluktuk, spilling of diesel fuel. Geography Kugluktuk is located on the shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kugaaruk
Kugaaruk (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ ''Kuugaarjuk'' or ᑰᒑᕐᕈᒃ ''Kuugaarruk''; English: "little stream") (also called ''Arviligjuaq'', meaning "the great bowhead whale habitat"), formerly known as Pelly Bay until 3 December 1999, is located on the shore of Pelly Bay, just off the Gulf of Boothia, Simpson Peninsula, Kitikmeot, in Canada's Nunavut territory. Access is by air by the Kugaaruk Airport and by annual supply sealift. ''Kugaaruk'' means "little stream", the traditional name of the brook that flows through the hamlet. Near the hamlet is CAM-4, a North Warning System site that was once part of the Distant Early Warning Line. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kugaaruk had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Culture The historical inhabitants were Arviligjuarmiut. Kugaar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinngait
Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning "high mountain" or "where the hills are"; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), formerly known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. History Kinngait, previously Cape Dorset and Sikusiilaq before that is where the remains of the Thule (Early Inuit) and pre-Inuit Dorset people (Tuniit) were discovered, who lived between 1000 BC and 1100 AD. The European name of Cape Dorset was given by Captain Luke Foxe after Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset, on 24 September 1631. The Inuit originally called the inlet ''Sikusiilaq'', after the area of sea ocean nearby that remains ice-free all winter. Hudson's Bay Company set up a trading post here in 1913, where they traded furs and skins for supplies such as tobacco, ammunition, flour, gas, tea and sugar. In December 2019, the residents of Cape Dorset voted in favour of a requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimmirut
Kimmirut ( Syllabics: ᑭᒻᒥᕈᑦ ; known as Lake Harbour until 1 January 1996) is a community in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the shore of Hudson Strait on Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula. Kimmirut means "heel", and refers to a rocky outcrop in the inlet. It was at one time a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post. The Canadian explorer J. Dewey Soper used these posts as headquarters during his explorations in the 1920s and 1930s. The community is served by Kimmirut Airport and by annual supply sealift. A proposal in 2005 for a road to Iqaluit was determined to be impractical owing to roundabout routing over the mountains. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kimmirut had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Image gallery Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iqaluit
Iqaluit ( ; , ; ) is the capital of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, and its only city. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the Frobisher Bay, large bay on the coast on which the city is situated. In 1987, its traditional Inuktitut name was restored. In 1999, Iqaluit was designated the capital of Nunavut after the division of the Northwest Territories into two separate territories. Before this event, Iqaluit was a small city and not well known outside the Northern Canada, Canadian Arctic or Canada, with population and economic growth highly limited. This is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence on expensive imported supplies, as the city, like the rest of Nunavut, has no road or rail, and only has ship connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada. The city has a polar climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Islandthis makes the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igloolik
Igloolik ( Inuktitut syllabics: , ''Iglulik'', ) is an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, northern Canada. Because its location on Igloolik Island is close to Melville Peninsula, it is often mistakenly thought to be on the peninsula. The name "Igloolik" means "there is a house here". It derives from meaning house or building, and refers to the sod houses that were originally in the area, not to snow igloos. In Inuktitut the residents are called Iglulingmiut (the suffix ''miut'' means "people of"). History Information about the area’s earliest inhabitants comes mainly from numerous archaeological sites on the island; some dating back more than 4,000 years. First contact with Europeans came when British Navy ships HMS ''Fury'' and HMS ''Hecla'', under the command of Captain William Edward Parry, wintered in Igloolik in 1822. The island was visited in 1867 and 1868 by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall in his search for survivors of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grise Fiord
Grise Fiord (; iu, ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ, translit=Aujuittuq, lit=place that never thaws, italics=no) is an Inuit hamlet on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of three populated places on the island; despite its low population (144 residents as of the 2021 Canadian census), it is the largest community (and only public community) on Ellesmere Island. The hamlet at Grise Fiord, created by the Canadian Government in 1953 through a relocation of Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec, is the northernmost public community in Canada. It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of . History Creation This community (and that of Resolute) was created by the Canadian government in 1953, partly to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War. Eight Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec (on the Ungava Peninsula), were relocated after being promised homes and game to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjoa Haven
Gjoa Haven (; Inuktitut: Uqsuqtuuq, syllabics: ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ , meaning "lots of fat", referring to the abundance of sea mammals in the nearby waters; or �ʒɔa evən is an Inuit hamlet in Nunavut, above the Arctic Circle, located in the Kitikmeot Region, northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It is the only settlement on King William Island. Etymology The name Gjoa Haven is from the Norwegian or "Gjøa's Harbour"; it was named by early 20th-century polar explorer Roald Amundsen after his ship ''Gjøa.'' This was derived from the old Norse name Gyða, a compressed compound form of Guðfríðr ( "god" and "beautiful"'). History In 1903, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had entered the area on his ship ''Gjøa'' in an expedition intending to travel through the Northwest Passage. By October the straits through which he was travelling began to ice up. Amundsen put ''Gjøa'' into a natural harbour on the southeast coast of King William Island. He sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Harbour
Coral Harbour (Inuktitut: Salliq/Salliit, Syllabics: ᓴᓪᓕᖅ/ᓴᓪᓖᑦ), is a small Inuit community that is located on Southampton Island, Kivalliq Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Its name is derived from the fossilized coral that can be found around the waters of the community which is situated at the head of South Bay. The name of the settlement in Inuktitut is ''Salliq'', sometimes used to refer to all of Southampton Island. The plural ''Salliit'', means ''large flat island(s) in front of the mainland''. History The Sadlermiut ("inhabitants of Salliq") whose name is derived from ''Salliq'' previously occupied the area. The Sadlermiut are thought to be the last vestige of the '' Tuniit''. The ''Tuniit'', a pre-Inuit culture, officially went ethnically and culturally extinct in 1902-03 when a Western illness killed all of the ''Sadlermiut'' in a matter of weeks. However, others believe that the Sadlermiut were in fact descendants of the Thule, whose geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde River, Nunavut
Clyde River ( Syllabics: ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ, Inuktitut: ''Kanngiqtugaapik'' "nice little inlet") is an Inuit hamlet located on the shore of Baffin Island's Patricia Bay, off Kangiqtugaapik, an arm of Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, of Nunavut, Canada. It lies in the Baffin Mountains which in turn form part of the Arctic Cordillera mountain range. The community is served by air and by annual supply sealift. The community is served by Quluaq School, the Northern Stores, an arena, a community hall, an Anglican church (the Church of the Redeemer), a health centre, hotel and Clyde River Airport with regular flights to Iqaluit and Pond Inlet. Geography It is located on a flood plain, surrounded by spectacular fjords that stretch all the way into the Barnes Ice Cap. The mountains, icebergs and glaciers in the Clyde River area attract rock and ice climbers from around the world. There is also a multitude of animals to be seen, including barren-ground caribou, narwhals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
