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Nunavut Day is a public holiday, per the 2001 Nunavut Day Holiday Order. [2] Despite being a declared public holiday in the territory, many organizations and stores remain open throughout the day. Employees of the federal government of Canada must still work on this day, as it is not treated as a public holiday for federal public servants ...
The Ahiarmiut ᐃᓴᓪᒥᐅᑦ or Ihalmiut ("People from Beyond") or ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers") [1] [2] [3] are a group of inland Inuit who lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Ennadai Lake, [4] and Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), as well as north of Thlewiaza River ("Big River"), [5] in northern Canada's Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq ...
One centre of the bone and carcass collection efforts was a springtime hunting camp on an island called Qaipsunik, near Igloolik in today's Nunavut. [6] The members of the camp collected about three bags of animal bones and carcasses per day from 1940 through 1945, [6] with each bag weighing about 57 kg (125 lb). [2]
Tree River, N.W.T. (present-day Nunavut) April 1, 1922 Doak was shot and killed in his sleep by 18-year-old Alikomiak, who had escaped his jail cell after being arrested for his involvement in the killing of five natives. After killing Doak, Alikomiak also went on to shoot and kill Hudson's Bay Company worker Otto Binder. Alikomiak was hanged ...
But then the skies went dark. And they stayed dark -- day after day, month after month -- from early 536 to 537. Across much of eastern Europe and throughout Asia, spring turned into summer and ...
The history of Nunavut covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Eskimo thousands of years ago to present day. Prior to the colonization of the continent by Europeans, the lands encompassing present-day Nunavut were inhabited by several historical cultural groups, including the Pre-Dorset , the Dorsets , the Thule and their descendants ...
David George Pendleton Taylor CBE (5 July 1933 – 8 November 2007) was a British colonial administrator and businessman who served as chief executive of the Falklands Islands [1] and Governor of Montserrat. [2] Grave of David Taylor in Highgate Cemetery
Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1915 Dr. Rudolph Martin Anderson. The Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 was a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. [1] The expedition was originally to be sponsored by the (US) National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History.