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Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [5] [6] The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. [7]
610 excess deaths in BC and 66 excess deaths in Alberta during the week [6] [7] [8] 500+ 1953 Polio: Epidemic: Canada 562 1873 RMS Atlantic: Shipwreck Mars Island, Nova Scotia 428 2009-2010 Swine flu: Pandemic Canada out of 3 million Canadians infected 360 1758 Duke William: Shipwreck Atlantic Ocean near the coast of France: during the ...
On November 8, 1972, Hartwell was given a charter to fly from Cambridge Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) with three passengers who had just arrived from Spence Bay; a pregnant Inuk woman named Neemee Nulliayok, a 14-year-old Inuk boy named David Pisurayak Kootook (who was suffering from appendicitis), and an attending government nurse named Judy Hill. [3]
While heading to Alert in the far north on October 30, 1991, pilot Captain John Couch misjudges his altitude and crashes 10 miles from the base. Master Corporal Roland Pitre, the loadmaster, is the first to die while three others also do not survive the impact: Warrant Officer, Robert Grimsley, Master Warrant Officer, Tom Jardine, and Captain ...
April 14 - Hector Authier, politician, lawyer and news reporter/announcer (b.1881) April 17 - Carmen Lombardo, singer and composer (b.1903) April 19 - Earl Thomson, athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b.1895) May 2 - John Horne Blackmore, politician (b.1890) May 3 - Georges Poulin, hockey player (b. 1887)
1 Alert's value as a military base. 1 comment. 2 Edmonton. 6 comments. ... Orthographic projection centred over Alert Nunavut.png Nominated for Deletion. 1 comment. 9 ...
Date Victim Type Location — Circumstances July 29, 2024: John Woods, 60, male Wild Canada, Shamattawa First Nation, Manitoba — The 60-year-old who went missing in a northeastern Manitoba First Nation, Canada, is believed to have been killed by a bear, RCMP say, a week after police responded to a bear attack that left another person in the area injured.
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