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26-410: 62°54′N 69°51′W  /  62.900°N 69.850°W  / 62.900; -69.850  ( Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve ) This protected areas-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Qikiqtaaluk Region , Nunavut location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Canadian protected area related article

52-439: A land area of 970,554.61 km (374,733.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.0/km (0.1/sq mi) in 2021. 70°N 080°W  /  70°N 80°W  / 70; -80  ( Qikiqtaaluk Region ) Grise Fiord Grise Fiord ( / ɡ r iː z f i ˈ ɔːr d / ; Inuktitut : ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ , romanized :  Aujuittuq , lit.   'place that never thaws')

78-537: A range of 18,000 km (6,900 sq mi) each year. In 1993, the Canadian government held hearings to investigate the relocation program. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples issued a report entitled The High Arctic Relocation: A Report on the 1953–55 Relocation , recommending a settlement. The government paid CAD10 million to the survivors and their families, and gave a formal apology in 2010. In 2009, artist and Grise Fiord resident Looty Pijamini

104-718: Is Iqaluit (population 7,740). The Qikiqtaaluk Region spans the northernmost, easternmost, and southernmost areas of Nunavut . Before 1999, the Qikiqtaaluk Region existed under slightly different boundaries in the Northwest Territories as the Baffin Region , in the northern part of the District of Keewatin . The western half of the nearby Hans Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk, while

130-652: Is Canada's northernmost public community. It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of −16.5 °C (2.3 °F). This community (and that of Resolute ) was created by the Canadian government in 1953, partly to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War . Eight Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec (on the Ungava Peninsula ), were relocated after being promised homes and game to hunt, but

156-456: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region , Qikiqtani Region ( Inuktitut syllabics : ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ pronounced [qikiqtaːˈluk] ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut , Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island . Although

182-596: Is a permanent Canadian Forces Base ( CFS Alert ) and weather station. Grise Fiord lies 1,160 km (720 mi) north of the Arctic Circle , and is the northernmost civilian community in Canada. Grise Fiord is cradled by the Arctic Cordillera mountain range. Grise Fiord has a tundra climate ( Köppen : ETf ; Trewartha : Ftkd ) with very short, cool summers and long, cold winters lasting almost

208-565: Is an Inuit hamlet on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island , in the Qikiqtaaluk Region , Nunavut , Canada. It is one of three populated places on the island; despite its low population (144 residents at the 2021 Canadian census ), it is the largest community (and only public community) on Ellesmere Island. Created by the Canadian Government in 1953 through a relocation of Inuit families from Inukjuak , Quebec, it

234-544: Is developing as people come to see the northern wildlife found on Ellesmere and surrounding islands. There are no connecting roads on Ellesmere Island, so Grise Fiord is connected to the rest of the world by a small airstrip ( Grise Fiord Airport ), 1,675 ft (511 m) in length. Surrounded by mountains, it has one of the most difficult approaches for aircraft; it is cautioned that only very experienced pilots of Pilatus PC-12 , DHC-6 Twin Otter and DHC-7 aircraft attempt

260-452: Is no room for expansion. In 1970, Bell Canada established what was then the world's most northerly telephone exchange (operated since 1992 by Northwestel ). It is in the 867 area code (formerly 819 before October 1997) with its only exchange code of 980. Since 2005, the community has been served by the Qiniq network, a fixed wireless service to homes and businesses that connects to

286-1141: The Astro Hill Complex , the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum and the Legislative Building of Nunavut and the Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre. According to anthropologists and historians, the Inuit are the descendants of the Thule people who displaced the Dorset culture (in Inuktitut , the Tuniit). By 1300 the Inuit had trade routes with more southern cultures. About 1910, Europeans markets increased their interest in white fox pelts. The distribution and mobility of Inuit changed as they expanded their traditional hunting and fishing routes to participate in

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312-458: The Arctic , in which the comedian Billy Connolly camped alone for a week on the pack ice near to the community, armed with a rifle to protect him from polar bears. Located at the southern tip of Ellesmere Island , Grise Fiord is one of three permanent inhabited places on the island. Farther north on the island, Environment Canada has a permanent weather station at Eureka , and at Alert there

338-469: The Canadian government, and some Anglican and Catholic missionaries who lived near remote northern hamlets. By 1922, most of imported goods acquired by Inuit were from the HBC. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Qikiqtaaluk Region had a population of 19,355 living in 5,530 of its 6,573 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 18,988 . With

364-486: The Qikiqtaaluk Region is the most commonly used name in official contexts, several notable public organizations, including Statistics Canada prior to the 2021 Canadian census , use the older term Baffin Region. With a population of 18,988 and an area of 989,879.35 km (382,194.55 sq mi), it is the largest and most populated of the three regions. It is also the largest second-level administrative division in

390-522: The Qikiqtaaluk. Formerly, there was a mining town at Nanisivik . However, it and the Nanisivik Mine closed in 2002, with Nanisivik Airport closing in 2010 and all flights transferred to Arctic Bay Airport . Like the majority of Canada's Inuit communities, the region's traditional foods include seal , Arctic char , walrus , polar bear , and caribou . Inhabitants of the Qikiqtaaluk Region are called Qikiqtaalungmiut . Iqaluit has

416-404: The approach. For local travel needs, the villagers use all-terrain vehicles in the summer and snowmobiles in the winter. During the winter months travel is limited to the town site and a small patch of land to the east, called Nuvuk, due to mountains and ice fields that cut off the town from the rest of the island. Small boats are used in summer to reach hunting grounds, and to hunt sea mammals on

442-488: The area sounded like pigs. The Inuktitut name is ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ ( Aujuittuq ), which means "place that never thaws". The houses are wooden and built on platforms to cope with the freezing and thawing of the permafrost . Hunting is still an important part of the lifestyle of the mostly Inuit population. Quota systems allow the villagers to supply many of their needs from populations of seals , walruses , narwhal and beluga whales , polar bears and muskox . Ecotourism

468-727: The eastern half is part of Greenland and is in the municipality of Avannaata . All of Qikiqtaaluk's thirteen communities are located on tidal water and just under half of its residents live in Nunavut's capital and only city, Iqaluit (7,740. ). The majority of the rest live in twelve hamlets— Arctic Bay (868 ), Kinngait (1,441 ), Clyde River (1,053 ), Grise Fiord (129 ), Sanirajak (848 ), Igloolik (1,682 ), Kimmirut (389 ), Pangnirtung (1,481 ), Pond Inlet (1,617 ), Qikiqtarjuaq (598 ), Resolute (198 ) and Sanikiluaq (882 ). Alert ( CFS Alert ) and Eureka are part of Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized (permanent population 0 ) areas in

494-624: The entire year. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Grise Fiord had a population of 144 living in 58 of its 64 total private dwellings, a change of 11.6% from its 2016 population of 129. With a land area of 332.9 km (128.5 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.4/km (1.1/sq mi) in 2021. Just to the north of the community is the actual fiord, Grise Fiord , which means "pig inlet" in Norwegian. Otto Sverdrup from Norway so named it during an expedition around 1900 because he thought walruses in

520-453: The ocean. Once a year large ships ( sealift ) arrive with supplies and fuel. The local cooperative is the main place to purchase supplies. There are local guide and outfitting operations, which are an important source of income for many families, as are carving, traditional clothing and other Inuit crafts. Due to the extreme location, the economy is subsistence-based. Because of the potential for avalanches and falling rocks from mountains, there

546-510: The outside world via a satellite backbone. In 2017 the network, designed and operated by SSI Micro , was upgraded to 4G LTE technology, and 2G-GSM for mobile voice. In 2019, Bell Mobility became available to Grise Fiord. A Simon Fraser University study of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) activity in the Baffin Region states that Grise Fiord had the lowest rate of criminal offences of all communities examined in 1992, and cites

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572-419: The relocated people discovered no buildings and very little familiar wildlife. They were told that they would be returned home after a year if they wished, but this offer was later withdrawn, for it would have damaged Canada's claims to sovereignty in the area; the Inuit were forced to stay . Eventually, the Inuit learned the local beluga whale migration routes and were able to survive in the area, hunting over

598-419: The white fox fur trade. Traditional food staples—such as seal and caribou—were not always found in the same regions as white fox. The Hudson's Bay Company —which was chartered in 1670—had been opening fur trading posts throughout Inuit and First Nations territory. By 1910, the HBC was restructured into a lands sales department, retail and fur trade. The HBC dominated the fur trade under minimal supervision from

624-679: The world. The region consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands , Akimiski Island , Mansel Island , Prince Charles Island , Bylot Island , Devon Island , Baillie-Hamilton Island , Cornwallis Island , Bathurst Island , Amund Ringnes Island , Ellef Ringnes Island , Axel Heiberg Island , Ellesmere Island , the Melville Peninsula , the eastern part of Melville Island , and the northern parts of both Prince of Wales Island and Somerset Island , plus smaller islands in between. The regional centre, and territorial capital,

650-618: Was commissioned by Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated to build a monument to commemorate the Inuit who sacrificed so much as a result of the Government's forced relocation programme of 1953 and 1955. Pijamini's monument, located in Grise Fiord, depicts a woman with a young boy and a husky, with the woman sombrely looking out towards Resolute Bay. Amagoalik's monument, located in Resolute, depicts a lone man looking towards Grise Fiord. This

676-408: Was meant to show separated families, and depicting them longing to see each other again. The Grise Fiord monument was unveiled by John Duncan , at the time, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians , on September 10, 2010. Grise Fiord was the location for a 1995 BBC television documentary entitled Billy Connolly: A Scot in

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