INUIT LIFE IN THE EASTERN CANADIAN ARCTIC, 1922–1942: CHANGE AS RECORDED BY THE RCMP

• Published in: The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien
• Main Author: Weissling, Lee E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1991
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Island; Pond Inlet; Baffin; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1991.tb01621.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1541-0064.1991.tb01621.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1991.tb01621.x

RCMP reports of the Pond Inlet detachment on northern Baffin Island from 1922 to 1942 are used as sources of information about Inuit life during those years. Descriptions in the reports provide accounts on a local level about the increasing reliance which Inuit had upon government agents and commerc...