Employment and demography in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut ...

• Main Author: Goehring, Brian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: Baffin; Bathurst Inlet; Cambridge Bay; Gjoa Haven; inuit; Keewatin; Kitikmeot; Kivalliq; Kugluktuk; Nunavut; Pelly Bay; Qikiqtaaluk; Taloyoak
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0087730; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0087730

The Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut is the focus of this study. Composed of the communities of Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk (Coppermine), Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak, Pelly Bay and two small settlements, Baychimo and Bathurst Inlet, this region will join with Kivalliq (Keewatin) and Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin) to form the thirteenth political unit of Canadian Confederation, Nunavut ("our land"), on April 1, 1999. At this time the Inuit, who form the majority within Nunavut, will have achieved and legitimized a form of public self-government to guide their political aspirations to the future, What remains to be determined is the economic future. The thesis is an exercise in determining what this economic future will hold in one of the three political units of what will become Nunavut: the Kitikmeot. It is an attempt to answer two primary questions. The first is "what is it that people presently 'do' to earn a living in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut?". In this regard, the thesis offers as original research a compilation and ...