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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.
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.
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.
Kugluktuk, then called Coppermine, was the other. [33] Geography ... Nunavut Impact Review Board, and Nunavut Planning Commission have offices in Cambridge Bay, ...
The largest hamlet by land area is Kugluktuk, which spans 538.99 km 2 (208.11 sq mi), while the smallest is Kimmirut, at 2.30 km 2 (0.89 sq mi). [3] Like cities, towns, and villages, hamlets have a council comprising a mayor and eight councillors, variable by the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs on council request.
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