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Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut
Bathurst Inlet (Inuinnaqtun: Qingaut Kingaok, Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᙵᐅᓐ), is a small Inuit community located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, at the mouth of the Burnside River.
The Inuit name for the community is Kingaun (old orthography) or Qingaut (new orthography), meaning nose mountain, which refers to a hill close to the community. Thus, the people of the area are referred to as "Kingaunmiut" (miut - people of).
The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun, and is written using the Latin alphabet rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay and Umingmaktok syllabics are rarely seen and used mainly by the Government of Nunavut.
Bathurst Inlet is the traditional birthing grounds of a "key northern species", the large, migratory Bathurst herd of barren-ground caribou. Over millennia, the Inuit, First Nations and Métis depended on the Bathurst Inlet herd for survival.
Like other communities in Nunavut, the only access is by aircraft. Although most tourists arrive from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, it is possible to charter an aircraft from Cambridge Bay. The community has no local phone service and contact with the outside world is maintained by satellite phone.
Like its sister community, Umingmaktok, schooling is provided by flying the students to Cambridge Bay and returning them for Christmas and the summer.
The first Europeans known to have visited the area was during the first expedition of John Franklin in 1821. There was little outside contact until on 27 August 1925, when the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) set up an outpost on Banks Peninsula, to the north of the present location. In 1930, the post was relocated to its present location at the mouth of the Burnside River. The post, consisting of a store, staff house, fur warehouse, and workshop, would trade for the fur of arctic fox, wolf, and wolverine, as well as occasional bear, ermine, and seal skins. Caribou skins were usually sent to other trading posts on the Boothia Peninsula area where caribou were scarce, to be used by local Inuit for clothing. In 1934, a small Catholic Church was built, and a community grew up around the post, growing to more than 100 people by the late 1930s. Trade continued through the 1940s and 1950s, but the Bathurst Inlet Post rarely made a profit.
In 1964, the Hudson's Bay Company abandoned the site and moved to Umingmaktok, while the Inuit decided to remain in the area and continued the traditional lifestyle.
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Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut
Bathurst Inlet (Inuinnaqtun: Qingaut Kingaok, Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᙵᐅᓐ), is a small Inuit community located in Bathurst Inlet in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, at the mouth of the Burnside River.
The Inuit name for the community is Kingaun (old orthography) or Qingaut (new orthography), meaning nose mountain, which refers to a hill close to the community. Thus, the people of the area are referred to as "Kingaunmiut" (miut - people of).
The traditional language of the area was Inuinnaqtun, and is written using the Latin alphabet rather than the syllabics of the Inuktitut writing system. Like Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay and Umingmaktok syllabics are rarely seen and used mainly by the Government of Nunavut.
Bathurst Inlet is the traditional birthing grounds of a "key northern species", the large, migratory Bathurst herd of barren-ground caribou. Over millennia, the Inuit, First Nations and Métis depended on the Bathurst Inlet herd for survival.
Like other communities in Nunavut, the only access is by aircraft. Although most tourists arrive from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, it is possible to charter an aircraft from Cambridge Bay. The community has no local phone service and contact with the outside world is maintained by satellite phone.
Like its sister community, Umingmaktok, schooling is provided by flying the students to Cambridge Bay and returning them for Christmas and the summer.
The first Europeans known to have visited the area was during the first expedition of John Franklin in 1821. There was little outside contact until on 27 August 1925, when the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) set up an outpost on Banks Peninsula, to the north of the present location. In 1930, the post was relocated to its present location at the mouth of the Burnside River. The post, consisting of a store, staff house, fur warehouse, and workshop, would trade for the fur of arctic fox, wolf, and wolverine, as well as occasional bear, ermine, and seal skins. Caribou skins were usually sent to other trading posts on the Boothia Peninsula area where caribou were scarce, to be used by local Inuit for clothing. In 1934, a small Catholic Church was built, and a community grew up around the post, growing to more than 100 people by the late 1930s. Trade continued through the 1940s and 1950s, but the Bathurst Inlet Post rarely made a profit.
In 1964, the Hudson's Bay Company abandoned the site and moved to Umingmaktok, while the Inuit decided to remain in the area and continued the traditional lifestyle.