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Inuvik's Our Lady of Victory Church, often called Igloo Church, is a famous landmark in the region. It is the most-photographed building in the town [citation needed]. Inuvik has the Midnight Sun Mosque, North America's northernmost, which opened in November 2010 after being built in Winnipeg and moved 4,000 km (2,500 mi) by truck and barge. [51]
Of the six communities in the ISR all are located in the Northwest Territories [12] and, along with Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic, form the Inuvik Region. [ 13 ] Inuvik , located on the East Channel of the Mackenzie Delta, approximately 100 km (62 mi) from the Arctic Ocean , is the region's administrative centre, home to the Inuvialuit ...
The Inuvik Region or Beaufort Delta Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada. According to Municipal and Community Affairs the region consists of eight communities with the regional office situated in Inuvik . [ 1 ]
The traditional language is known as Inuvialuktun and it is made up of three or four dialects. Uummarmiutun, spoken by the Uummarmiut of Aklavik and Inuvik, is an Inupiatun dialect but is usually associated with Inuvialuktun.
Aklavik / ə ˈ k l æ v ɪ k / (Inuvialuktun: Akłarvik) (from the Inuvialuktun meaning barrenground grizzly place [4]) is a hamlet located in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Until 1961, with a population over 1,500, the community served as the regional administrative centre for the territorial government.
From 1935 to the mid-1950s, only seven independent herds were established. The program was finally extinguished by new postwar developments in the Arctic. For those Inuvialuit willing to consider non-traditional wage labour, the construction of the DEW Line and the new town of Inuvik provided much higher incomes. The federal government sold the ...
Tuktoyaktuk (/ ˌ t ʌ k t ə ˈ j æ k t ʌ k / TUK-tə-YAK-tuk; Inuvialuktun: Tuktuyaaqtuuq [təktujaːqtuːq], lit. ' it looks like a caribou ') [5] is an Inuvialuit hamlet near the Mackenzie River delta in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, at the northern terminus of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
The Midnight Sun Mosque, also known as the Inuvik Mosque or Little Mosque on the Tundra, [1] is a non-denominational Islamic house of worship located in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. [2] The mosque was built in 2010 for the town's small Muslim community.