DOCSLIB.ORG

"Old Iqaluit": the Inuit Village

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
CHAPTER 1 THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II Hudson's Bay Company, Pangnirtung Post Journal, 1938-1939, 1939-1940 Wednesday September 28, 1938 We anxiously listen to the news programmes to hear the latest developments on the European situation. Saturday April 8, 1939 Most of the talk is about the serious European situation, but we entertain high hopes for the best. Thursday April 27, 1939 Situation certainly is grave, latest event being conscription in the British Isles. Sunday September 3, 1939 Great Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany today. The whole settlement gathered in the Company's living room to hear His Majesty King George VI speak to his people. The flags were flying. Did the Inuit know that there was a war going on? What was your reaction when you heard about the war? Uqi Kunuk: This happened before I was old enough to Napatchie Noah: I was kind of scared. I thought the Germans remember. My father used to tell us that the HBC [Hudson's Bay were going to come, and I was afraid of being killed when they Company] always knew what was going on with the war, even arrived. before the Americans arrived. He said that people were scared. You were afraid of being killed? Napatchie Noah: Yes, by non-Americans arriving in Iqaluit. Did the Inuit know about the war back then? Were there Germans in the Arctic at that time? Napatchie Noah: Yes, we knew that there was a war going on Napatchie Noah: I heard that there were Germans, but I'm not because the Americans were here. I heard about this. I'm not the really able to say. only one who knew. After the war was over, did you hear about the Russians? Inuit Recollections on the Military Presence in Iqaluit - Chapter 1 Napatchie Noah: I might have heard about this, but again I really qammaq3, in that inlet down there. can't say. Were there any radios at Inuit camps? Napatchie Noah: We didn't have a radio at that time. The only At the time, were Inuit aware that there was a war going on? place we heard any information was at Iqalugaarjuit1. We had no Jimmy Nooshoota: Yes. We knew that there was a war going on communication equipment back then. The manager at and so did our parents. We heard about this even though we Iqalugaarjuit informed us about the war. We had no radios or were children. communication equipment back then. Did you know that there was a war going on before the Americans came? Were the people from the winter camps aware of the war? Jimmy Nooshoota: We had already heard on the radio that there was a war going on before the Americans came to Kimmirut, on Simonie Michael: Yes. My step-father, Tigullagaq, used to work the kind of radios that did not require batteries. Airplanes would for the HBC when I was a child. That is after I came from also drop mail at Kimmirut that was going to the qallunaat4, like Kimmirut because I was adopted. We would hear the news about the traders and the police. the war whenever the wind was blowing through the wind- powered radio in Iqalugaarjuit. The Company owned one of Ooleepeeka Nooshoota: You said that the police would come these. We would hear the news about the war from them. over to your house to listen to the radio while the war was going on. Did they hear better when it was windy? Did I understand Jimmy Nooshoota: When it became time for the news to be aired you correctly? over the radio, the police would come over and listen to our radio because our radio had better reception. Simonie Michael: Yes. When the wind was blowing, that was 2 when it would go on. They tapped on it. What kind of radio was it? Where was the HBC store that Tigullagaq worked at? Jimmy Nooshoota: It was the kind operating on large batteries. Simonie Michael: I think it was about fifty-two miles from Did you understand what was being said over the radio? Iqaluit. It was in Iqalugaarjuit, where people from here go fishing. It was across from Tasiujarjualaaq. You would pass Barnabas' Jimmy Nooshoota: I couldn't. My father worked for the police for quite a while so he could speak and understand a bit of English, 1 In Inuktitut the name for the Hudson's Bay Company’s trading post in Ward Inlet can be pronounced either in the singular, Iqalugaarjuk or in 3 A sod house; also a snowhouse with the top covered by a tent. the plural, Iqalugaarjuit. 4 The Inuktitut word for a white person; singular qallunaaq, plural 2 Referring to Morse Code. qallunaat. Inuit Recollections on the Military Presence in Iqaluit - Chapter 1 just enough to get by. What other qallunaat were there? Were the people scared? Shorty Shoo: There was the HBC manager, the RCMP, and the missionaries. They were the only qallunaat there back then. Jimmy Nooshoota: I did not witness anyone showing any kind of fear even though there was a war going on. Perhaps people did Did the Inuit hear from the qallunaat that there was a war not realize the threat that war brought to people, so no one going on? seemed to be afraid. Shorty Shoo: Yes. I was a child back then. We Inuit knew about this, because we were told. Did you live here in Iqaluit, or did you live in another camp Who told the Inuit about this? when the Americans were here? Shorty Shoo: I do not know who told us. Shorty Shoo: We have lived here since we moved here in 1958. Were the Inuit scared that there was a war going on? Where did you live before you moved here? Shorty Shoo: I wasn't, because I was too young to understand. Shorty Shoo: I'm from Kimmirut. Both my wife and I were born Annie Shoo: I was scared. just outside of Kimmirut. Why were you scared? When were you and your wife born? Annie Shoo: We used to be afraid of airplanes. We would cover Shorty Shoo: They say I was born in 1932. She is a year older than our lights when we heard a plane. That was the first time we me. heard airplanes. Did you often go to Kimmirut when you lived in your camp? Did you know who the planes belonged to? Did they belong Shorty Shoo: Yes. We went to Kimmirut nearly every day by to the Americans? dogteam in the winter. That was the only place to go trading. Annie Shoo: We were even scared by the sound of the plane. We did not know what they looked like. What were your parents' names? Shorty Shoo: Both of my parents were named Pitsiulaaq. Were you young when you first saw a plane? Annie Shoo: Yes. I was a young girl. Did your father trade fox furs or sealskins at the HBC? Shorty Shoo: He only traded fox furs back then. Later on he traded polar bear skins. Inuit Recollections on the Military Presence in Iqaluit - Chapter 1 [Recollections of Qiluja, taken from "Keelooyak's Story (Part IV)", 1975d, p. 61-62] I remember the first time I saw an airplane. I was still single at that time. Some Inuit were saying that there was a war going on and that an army was going to arrive on our land. The first plane I ever saw arrived during the day. A group of Inuit and myself started running away when we got scared of it. We just heard the engine at first and then it appeared quite far from us. When it got closer to us, we forgot everything we were doing and ran for our lives. We went into our homes and stayed there for a short time. One of the men in our camp, Moseesee, wanted to get away with the umiak, so we all got in and fled hurriedly on the water trying to get away from the plane. Moseesee knew an open cave behind where we were going to go clam digging that day and we all rushed over there for protection. The actions we took was Moseesee's idea. He did not want to leave me behind because I was one of the best oarsman on the land. Can you imagine us trying to get away from an airplane with a man-powered umiak? It must have been silly. Then that very night, three Inuit, including me, stayed up all night watching if anymore planes should invade us again. Now that I think of it, that certainly was very silly. The plane we were watching for was already far past our camp. After watching for the plane all night at the open cave where we went for safety, we started walking home because our umiak was useless with the low tide at that time of day. We all forgot to watch it in the excitement although someone told us to. When we got back home, my step-mother, who was an old woman, was dying with laughter. She asked us why we were running away and said she was not afraid of them because they were her friends and that she knew before that they would one day come to our land. She also said the planes would start coming in greater numbers after she had died. I do not know how the old woman knew this, but I found out later that she had an American father at birth.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study Nunavut, Canada
    english cover 11/14/01 1:13 PM Page 1 FINAL REPORT OF THE INUIT BOWHEAD KNOWLEDGE STUDY NUNAVUT, CANADA By Inuit Study Participants from: Arctic Bay, Arviat, Cape Dorset, Chesterfield Inlet, Clyde River, Coral Harbour, Grise Fiord, Hall Beach, Igloolik, Iqaluit, Kimmirut, Kugaaruk, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Qikiqtarjuaq, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay, and Whale Cove Principal Researchers: Keith Hay (Study Coordinator) and Members of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study Committee: David Aglukark (Chairperson), David Igutsaq, MARCH, 2000 Joannie Ikkidluak, Meeka Mike FINAL REPORT OF THE INUIT BOWHEAD KNOWLEDGE STUDY NUNAVUT, CANADA By Inuit Study Participants from: Arctic Bay, Arviat, Cape Dorset, Chesterfield Inlet, Clyde River, Coral Harbour, Grise Fiord, Hall Beach, Igloolik, Iqaluit, Kimmirut, Kugaaruk, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Qikiqtarjuaq, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board Repulse Bay, and Whale Cove PO Box 1379 Principal Researchers: Iqaluit, Nunavut Keith Hay (Study Coordinator) and X0A 0H0 Members of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study Committee: David Aglukark (Chairperson), David Igutsaq, MARCH, 2000 Joannie Ikkidluak, Meeka Mike Cover photo: Glenn Williams/Ursus Illustration on cover, inside of cover, title page, dedication page, and used as a report motif: “Arvanniaqtut (Whale Hunters)”, sc 1986, Simeonie Kopapik, Cape Dorset Print Collection. ©Nunavut Wildlife Management Board March, 2000 Table of Contents I LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES . .i II DEDICATION . .ii III ABSTRACT . .iii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 RATIONALE AND BACKGROUND FOR THE STUDY . .1 1.2 TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE . .1 2 METHODOLOGY 3 2.1 PLANNING AND DESIGN . .3 2.2 THE STUDY AREA . .4 2.3 INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES AND THE QUESTIONNAIRE . .4 2.4 METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS .
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings Template
    Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) Research Document 2020/032 Central and Arctic Region Ecological and Biophysical Overview of the Southampton Island Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area in support of the identification of an Area of Interest T.N. Loewen1, C.A. Hornby1, M. Johnson2, C. Chambers2, K. Dawson2, D. MacDonell2, W. Bernhardt2, R. Gnanapragasam2, M. Pierrejean4 and E. Choy3 1Freshwater Institute Fisheries and Oceans Canada 501 University Crescent Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N6 2North/South Consulting Ltd. 83 Scurfield Blvd, Winnipeg, MB R3Y 1G4 3McGill University. 845 Sherbrooke Rue, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4 4Laval University Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon 1045, , av. of Medicine Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6 July 2020 Foreword This series documents the scientific basis for the evaluation of aquatic resources and ecosystems in Canada. As such, it addresses the issues of the day in the time frames required and the documents it contains are not intended as definitive statements on the subjects addressed but rather as progress reports on ongoing investigations. Published by: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat 200 Kent Street Ottawa ON K1A 0E6 http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/ [email protected] © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2020 ISSN 1919-5044 Correct citation for this publication: Loewen, T. N., Hornby, C.A., Johnson, M., Chambers, C., Dawson, K., MacDonell, D., Bernhardt, W., Gnanapragasam, R., Pierrejean, M., and Choy, E. 2020. Ecological and Biophysical Overview of the Southampton proposed Area of Interest for the Southampton Island Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res.
    [Show full text]
  • Examining Precontact Inuit Gender Complexity and Its
    EXAMINING PRECONTACT INUIT GENDER COMPLEXITY AND ITS DISCURSIVE POTENTIAL FOR LGBTQ2S+ AND DECOLONIZATION MOVEMENTS by Meghan Walley B.A. McGill University, 2014 A thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Archaeology Memorial University of Newfoundland May 2018 St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador 0 ABSTRACT Anthropological literature and oral testimony assert that Inuit gender did not traditionally fit within a binary framework. Men’s and women’s social roles were not wholly determined by their bodies, there were mediatory roles between masculine and feminine identities, and role-swapping was—and continues to be—widespread. However, archaeologists have largely neglected Inuit gender diversity as an area of research. This thesis has two primary objectives: 1) to explore the potential impacts of presenting queer narratives of the Inuit past through a series of interviews that were conducted with Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2S+) Inuit and 2) to consider ways in which archaeological materials articulate with and convey a multiplicity of gender expressions specific to pre-contact Inuit identity. This work encourages archaeologists to look beyond categories that have been constructed and naturalized within white settler spheres, and to replace them with ontologically appropriate histories that incorporate a range of Inuit voices. I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, qujannamiik/nakummek to all of the Inuit who participated in interviews, spoke to me about my work, and provided me with vital feedback. My research would be nothing without your input. I also wish to thank Safe Alliance for helping me identify interview participants, particularly Denise Cole, one of its founding members, who has provided me with invaluable insights, and who does remarkable work that will continue to motivate and inform my own.
    [Show full text]
  • Notes on the Birds of Southampton Island, Northwest Territories
    Notes on the Birds of Southampton Island, Northwest Territories GERALD R. PARKER'and R. KENYONROSS2 ABSTRACT. During thesummers of 1970 and 1971,46 species were seenon Southamp- ton Island, most in the interior of the island where previous records were scarce. A comparison with observations in 1932 suggestslittle change in thestatus of the avifauna of the island over the past 40 years. RÉSUMÉ: Notes sur les oiseaux deI'île de Southampton, Territoires du Nord-Ouest. Au cours des étés de 1970 et 1911, les auteurs ont aperçu sur l'île de Southampton 46 esphces, la plupart dans l'intérieur, où les mentions antérieures sont rares. La comparaison avec des observations de 1932 montre peu de changement dans l'état de l'avifaune de l'île au cours des'40 dernièresannées. PE3HI". ET eonpocy O nmuym ocmposa CagrnZemwnoH Cesepo-9anadnw Tep- PUmOpUU). B TeYeHHe JIeTHHX nepHonoB 1970 H 197lrr Ha OCTpOBe CayTreMIITOH 6~noSaMerfeHO 46 BIlnOB IlTIl4, FJIaBHbIM 06pa30~,BO BHYTPeHHefi YaCTH OCTPOBB, rge paHee perzwrpaqm EIX npoBoAHnacb peAIco. CpaBHeme c H~~JII~A~HEI~EI 1932rnoIcasmBaeT, YTO nTmbrx 4ayHa ocTposa Mano H~M~HEI~~CLsa nocnenme 40 neT. INTRODUCTION A barren-ground caribourange evaluation of Southampton Island, conducted by the Canadian Wildlife Service, provided the opportunity to observe the birds on the island during the periods 2 June to 14 August 1970 and 1 July to 31 August 1971. The main camp in 1970 was on the Southampton Limestone Plains of the Hudson Bay Lowlands (Bird 1953) at Salmon Pond (64" 14' N., 85" 00' W.), although several trips were made in July, 15 miles northeast to the Precambrian highlands.
    [Show full text]
  • Long-Term Landscape Evolution of Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut: Insights from Low-Temperature (U-Th)/ He Thermochronology C
    Atlantic Geology Volume 49 .. 2013 24 Long-term landscape evolution of Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut: insights from low-temperature (U-Th)/ He thermochronology C. Gabriel Creason and John C. Gosse Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1N5, Canada <[email protected]> The northern coast of Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, comprises a portion of the eastern Canadian Arctic Rim, an extensive physiographic feature with high relief spanning from southeastern Ellesmere Island to northern Labrador. Much of the high relief (> 1000 m) on Hall Peninsula has been attributed to incision during rift-flank uplift associated with Baffin Island separating from Greenland; however, the mechanisms for maintaining this high relief are poorly understood. In the nearby Torngat Mountains to the south, geophysical and thermochronologic data indicate the presence of a crustal root that induced rapid rift flank uplift. Conversely, thermochronologic data from Cumberland Peninsula to the north does not support the presence of a crustal root, suggesting other mechanisms responsible for the generation of its high relief. In the summer of 2012, 50 low-temperature thermochronology (e.g., apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He) samples were collected along three strategically positioned transects to determine the regional cooling history of the rocks on Hall Peninsula. Spatial distributions of the cooling ages of samples from two horizontal transects, one oriented parallel and one perpendicular to the Baffin rift-margin, will provide insight to the role (if any) of pre-existing drainage systems in the development of the high relief on eastern Hall Peninsula. Data from a vertical transect will be used to determine the rate of exhumation, if it varied with time, and the total amount of rock exhumed.
    [Show full text]
  • NTI IIBA for Conservation Areas Cultural Heritage and Interpretative
    NTI IIBA for Phase I: Cultural Heritage Resources Conservation Areas Report Cultural Heritage Area: Dewey Soper and Interpretative Migratory Bird Sanctuary Materials Study Prepared for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. 1 May 2011 This report is part of a set of studies and a database produced for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. as part of the project: NTI IIBA for Conservation Areas, Cultural Resources Inventory and Interpretative Materials Study Inquiries concerning this project and the report should be addressed to: David Kunuk Director of Implementation Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. 3rd Floor, Igluvut Bldg. P.O. Box 638 Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0 E: [email protected] T: (867) 975‐4900 Project Manager, Consulting Team: Julie Harris Contentworks Inc. 137 Second Avenue, Suite 1 Ottawa, ON K1S 2H4 Tel: (613) 730‐4059 Email: [email protected] Report Authors: Philip Goldring, Consultant: Historian and Heritage/Place Names Specialist Julie Harris, Contentworks Inc.: Heritage Specialist and Historian Nicole Brandon, Consultant: Archaeologist Note on Place Names: The current official names of places are used here except in direct quotations from historical documents. Names of places that do not have official names will appear as they are found in the source documents. Contents Maps and Photographs ................................................................................................................... 2 Information Tables .......................................................................................................................... 2 Section
    [Show full text]
  • Sustainability in Iqaluit
    2014-2019 Iqaluit Sustainable Community Plan Part one Overview www.sustainableiqaluit.com ©2014, The Municipal Corporation of the City of Iqaluit. All Rights Reserved. The preparation of this sustainable community plan was carried out with assistance from the Green Municipal Fund, a Fund financed by the Government of Canada and administered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Notwithstanding this support, the views expressed are the personal views of the authors, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Government of Canada accept no responsibility for them. Table of Contents Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION to Part One of the Sustainable Community Plan .........................................................2 SECTION 1 - Sustainability in Iqaluit ....................................................................................................3 What is sustainability? .............................................................................................................................. 3 Why have a Sustainable Community Plan? .............................................................................................. 3 Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and sustainability .............................................................................................. 4 SECTION 2 - Our Context ....................................................................................................................5 Iqaluit – then and now .............................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Tukitaaqtuq Explain to One Another, Reach Understanding, Receive Explanation from the Past and the Eskimo Identification Canada System
    Tukitaaqtuq explain to one another, reach understanding, receive explanation from the past and The Eskimo Identification Canada System by Norma Jean Mary Dunning A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Faculty of Native Studies University of Alberta ©Norma Jean Mary Dunning, 2014 ABSTRACT The government of Canada initiated, implemented, and officially maintained the ‘Eskimo Identification Canada’ system from 1941-1971. With the exception of the Labrador Inuit, who formed the Labrador Treaty of 1765 in what is now called, NunatuKavat, all other Canadian Inuit peoples were issued a leather-like necklace with a numbered fibre-cloth disk. These stringed identifiers attempted to replace Inuit names, tradition, individuality, and indigenous distinctiveness. This was the Canadian governments’ attempt to exert a form of state surveillance and its official authority, over its own Inuit citizenry. The Eskimo Identification Canada system, E- number, or disk system eventually became entrenched within Inuit society, and in time it became a form of identification amongst the Inuit themselves. What has never been examined by an Inuk researcher, or student is the long-lasting affect these numbered disks had upon the Inuit, and the continued impact into present-day, of this type of state-operated system. The Inuit voice has not been heard or examined. This research focuses exclusively on the disk system itself and brings forward the voices of four disk system survivors, giving voice to those who have been silenced for far too long. i PREFACE This thesis is an original work by Norma Dunning. The research project, of which this thesis is a part, received research ethics approval from the University of Alberta Research Ethics Board, Project Name: “Tukitaaqtuq (they reach understanding) and the Eskimo Identification Canada system,” PRO00039401, 05/07/2013.
    [Show full text]
  • CNGO NU Summary-Of-Activities
    SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES 2015 © 2015 by Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2015. This publication is also available, free of charge, as colour digital files in Adobe Acrobat® PDF format from the Canada- Nunavut Geoscience Office website: www.cngo.ca/ Every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this report, but Natural Resources Canada does not assume any liability for errors that may occur. Source references are included in the report and users should verify critical information. When using information from this publication in other publications or presentations, due acknowledgment should be given to Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office. The recommended reference is included on the title page of each paper. The com- plete volume should be referenced as follows: Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (2015): Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office Summary of Activities 2015; Canada- Nunavut Geoscience Office, 208 p. ISSN 2291-1235 Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office Summary of Activities (Print) ISSN 2291-1243 Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office Summary of Activities (Online) Front cover photo: Sean Noble overlooking a glacially eroded valley, standing among middle Paleoproterozoic age psam- mitic metasedimentary rocks, nine kilometres west of Chidliak Bay, southern Baffin Island. Photo by Dustin Liikane, Carleton University. Back cover photo: Iqaluit International Airport under rehabilitation and expansion; the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Of- fice, Geological Survey of Canada (Natural Resources Canada), Centre d’études nordiques (Université Laval) and Trans- port Canada contributed to a better understanding of permafrost conditions to support the planned repairs and adapt the in- frastructure to new climatic conditions. Photo by Tommy Tremblay, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office.
    [Show full text]
  • Wp-Uploads.Cngo.Ca
    Surficial geology of southern Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut: summary of the 2012 field season T. Tremblay, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, Iqaluit, Nunavut, [email protected] J. Leblanc-Dumas, Département de Géographie et Centre d’études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Quebec M. Allard, Département de Géographie et Centre d’études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Quebec J.C. Gosse, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia C.G. Creason, Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia P. Peyton, Environmental Technology Program, Nunavut Arctic College, Iqaluit, Nunavut P. Budkewitsch, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Iqaluit, Nunavut A-M. LeBlanc, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Tremblay, T., Leblanc-Dumas, J., Allard, M., Gosse, J.C., Creason, C.G., Peyton, P., Budkewitsch, P. and LeBlanc, A-M. 2013: Surficial geology of southern Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut: summary of the 2012 field season; in Summary of Activities 2012, Canada- Nunavut Geoscience Office, p. 93–100. Abstract This study is part of the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office’s Hall Peninsula Integrated Geoscience Program, a multiyear bedrock and surficial geology mapping program with associated thematic studies. This summary presents the surficial geol- ogy component of the program conducted during the 2012 field season, along with a summary of future work and a prelimi- nary overview of the Quaternary geology of the area. The emphasis of this study is placed on 1:100 000 surficial geology mapping (NTS 025I, J, O, P, 026A, B), till sampling, glaciodynamic setting and ice-flow history of the area. A traditional place names geological study will aim at describing how the geological landscape is linked with Inuit traditional activities and landmarks.
    [Show full text]
  • Cultural Heritage Resources Report
    NTI IIBA for Phase I Draft: Conservation Cultural Heritage Areas Resources Report Cultural Heritage Area: Akpait and and Interpretative Qaqulluit National Wildlife Materials Study Areas Prepared for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. 1 May 2011 This report is part of a set of studies and a database produced for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. as part of the project: NTI IIBA for Conservation Areas, Cultural Resources Inventory and Interpretative Materials Study Inquiries concerning this project and the report should be addressed to: David Kunuk Director of Implementation Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. 3rd Floor, Igluvut Bldg. P.O. Box 638 Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0 E: [email protected] T: (867) 975‐4900 Project Manager, Consulting Team: Julie Harris Contentworks Inc. 137 Second Avenue, Suite 1 Ottawa, ON K1S 2H4 Tel: (613) 730‐4059 Email: [email protected] Report Authors: Philip Goldring, Consultant: Historian and Heritage/Place Names Specialist Julie Harris, Contentworks Inc.: Heritage Specialist and Historian Nicole Brandon, Consultant: Archaeologist Note on Place Names: The current official names of places are used here except in direct quotations from historical documents. Throughout the document “Qikiqtarjuaq” refers to the settlement established in the 1950s and previously known as Broughton Island. Except when used in a direct quotation, the term “Broughton Island” in the report refers to the geographic feature (the island) on which the community of Qikiqtarjuaq is located. Names of places that do not have official names will appear as they are found in
    [Show full text]
  • Inuit Sled Dogs in Qikiqtaaluk
    Qikiqtani Truth Commission Thematic Reports and Special Studies 1950–1975 Qimmiliriniq: Inuit Sled Dogs in Qikiqtaaluk Qikiqtani Inuit Association Published by Inhabit Media Inc. www.inhabitmedia.com Inhabit Media Inc. (Iqaluit), P.O. Box 11125, Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 1H0 (Toronto), 146A Orchard View Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, M4R 1C3 Design and layout copyright © 2013 Inhabit Media Inc. Text copyright © 2013 Qikiqtani Inuit Association Photography copyright © 2013 Library and Archives Canada, Northwest Territories Archives Originally published in Qikiqtani Truth Commission: Thematic Reports and Special Studies 1950–1975 by Qikiqtani Inuit Association, April 2014. ISBN 978-1-927095-63-8 All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrievable system, without written consent of the publisher, is an infringement of copyright law. We acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage Canada Book Fund program. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. Please contact QIA for more information: Qikiqtani Inuit Association PO Box 1340, Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 Telephone: (867) 975-8400 Toll-free: 1-800-667-2742 Fax: (867) 979-3238 Email: [email protected] Errata Despite best efforts on the part of the author, mistakes happen. The following corrections should be noted when using this report: Administration in Qikiqtaaluk was the responsibility of one or more federal departments prior to 1967 when the Government of the Northwest Territories was became responsible for the provision of almost all direct services.
    [Show full text]