Igloolik

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Igloolik (sometimes spelled Iglulik; in Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ), is a small community Inuit E of the Nunavut, territory Scandinavian of the Canada. The village is located on small a island Foxe basin. This island being very close to the pénisule Melville, one often says that this village is on the aforementioned peninsula or - with a less degree - on the Île of Baffin which is rather close. The name " Igloolik" comes from the expression Inuktitut which wants to say " There are Igloo S ici". The inhabitants of Igloolik are called Iglulingmiut (~miut - " de" people;).

The relative informations with the first inhabitants are revealed to us by the many archeological sites. Some of them reveal a human presence as old as 4000 years. The first contacts documented with the Européens go up in the passing of the royal Marine, more precisely the ships HMS Fury (1914) and HMS Hecla , arrived there under the command of the captain William Edward Parry who spent the winter to Igloolik in 1822.

The island was then visited by the Explorateur American Charles Francis Hall in 1867 and 1868 which sought survivors of forwarding John Franklin. In 1913, the French Canadian Alfred Tremblay, prospector, and the Captain Joseph Bernier, pushed their forwarding and their mineral exploration of Lays-Inlet (with the Nunavut) until Igloolik . In 1921, a member of the fifth forwarding of Knud Rasmussen visited the island.

The first permanent establishment men of the South (years 1930) is due to a mission of the Catholic church. Towards the end of the same decade, the Compagnie of Hudson Bay installed a station on the island.

Among the not-natives, there was then the installation of a post office of the Royal Gendarmerie of Canada, school S and private clinics medical whereas the agglomeration was constituted.

In Anthropology, the Inuit of Igloolik are not only Iglulingmiut, but also the inhabitants of the north of the Île of Baffin, the Southampton island or the pénisule Melville.

It is an old legend of Igloolik which was adapted Zacharias Kunuk to give the Atanarjuat film in 2001. In 2004, Isuma produced the film The Journals off Knud Rasmussen to be left soon.

Statistics

Geographical location:

These values, drawn from the Canadian governmental statistics, include sometimes Iglulingmiut residing at Hall Beach, hamlet located on the pénisule of Melville (in the vicinity). No data is available for the 4000 years preceding the arrival by white.

External bonds

French-speaking Nunavut

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