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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.
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.
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]
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.
This conflict seems to have been instigated by both the Dene and the Inuit and possibly was caused by trade disputes but sometimes due to raids for women. [13] One of the better known of these battles was recorded by European explorer, Samuel Hearne. In 1771, Samuel Hearne was the first European to explore the Coppermine River region.
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
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Asger Rye "Red" Pedersen CM ONu (sometimes Asgar Rye Pederson, born 1935, Denmark) is a former territorial-level Canadian politician.In 1953, he got a job in the Canadian Arctic with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (then the Northwest Territories).