Out in the cold: Canada's experimental Inuit relocation to Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Marcus, Alan R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Resolute Bay; Cornwallis; Ungava Peninsula; Inukjuak; Grise Fiord; Arctic Archipelago; eskimo*; inuit; Polar Record; Ungava peninsula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400013048; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400013048

Abstract In 1953–55 the Canadian government experimentally relocated Inuit (Eskimo) families from the region of Port Harrison (Inukjuak), on Quebec's Ungava peninsula, to Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands in the Arctic Archipelago. Today Inuit relocatees allege that they were deceived by the gov...