Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kugluktuk (Qurluqtuq, lit. ' the place of moving water '; [7] Inuktitut syllabics: ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ; Inuktitut pronunciation:), known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island.
The Bloody Falls massacre was an incident that took place during Hudson's Bay Company employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River for copper deposits near modern-day Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada on 17 July 1771.
Bloody Falls (or Bloody Fall, or Kugluk, meaning "waterfall" in Inuinnaqtun [1]) is a waterfall on the Coppermine River, in the Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park of Nunavut, Canada. It was the site of the Bloody Falls Massacre in 1771 and the murder of two priests by Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak, two Copper Inuit men in 1913. [2]
Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park [1] [2] (Inuinnaqtun: kugluk; English: waterfall [3]) is located about 15 km (9.3 mi) southwest of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada. The 10 ha (25 acres) park is situated around the Bloody Falls on the Coppermine River and was listed as a national historic site in 1978.
Coppermine may refer, apart from the primary meaning of copper extraction, to: Coppermine Bay, Greenland; Coppermine Herald, one of the heralds at the Canadian Heraldic Authority; Coppermine Peninsula, Antarctica; Coppermine River, in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories; Kugluktuk, Nunavut, formerly known as Coppermine
The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is 845 kilometres (525 mi) [ 4 ] long. It rises in Lac de Gras , a small lake near Great Slave Lake , and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf , an arm of the Arctic Ocean .
Kogluktogmiut (alternate: Kogloktogmiut) were a geographically defined Copper Inuit subgroup in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. [1] They were located by Bloody Falls (Inuktitut: Kogluktok; meaning: "it flows rapidly" or "spurts like a cut artery"), a waterfall on the lower course of the Coppermine River [2] in the Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park, notable for the Bloody Falls Massacre.
Kabviukvik Island is an island located within Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada.. Other islands in the vicinity include Anchor Island, Douglas Island, Duke of York Archipelago, Haodlon Island, Hatoayok Island, Hokagon Island, Ivonayak Island, Kingak Island, Mangak Island, Nanortut Island, and Nanukton Island.