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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.
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 .
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
This is a list of communities in Nunavut, Canada. Many of these communities have alternate names or spellings in Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun, while others are primarily known by their Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun names. As of the 2016 census the population of Nunavut was 35,944, an increase of 12.66% from the 2011 census. [1]
Pages in category "People from Kugluktuk" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Bobby Anavilok; B.
Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Iqaluktuuttiaq [9] Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ; 2021 population 1,760; [6] population centre 1,403 [7]) is a hamlet located on Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada.
The majority of Ulukhaktokmiut come from a varied background, with family ties extending mainly to the Coppermine River community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut and the communities of the Mackenzie River Delta and Beaufort Sea, though some families have relatives as far away as Gjoa Haven on King William Island, and along the north slope of Alaska as ...