Timothy Idlout (1916-92)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Welch, Harold E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
• Subjects: Biographies; Culture (Anthropology); Idlout; Timothy; 1916-1992; Inuit; Outpost camps; Subsistence; Traditional knowledge; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Resolute; Somerset Island; Arctic; Aston Bay; Igloolik; Northwest Territories; Pond Inlet; Repulse Bay; Stanwell-Fletcher Lake; Baffin; Creswell Bay; Fort Ross; inuit; narwhal*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64383

On 28 November 1992, at age 77, Timothy Idlout died at home in Resolute, Northwest Territories. Born in the spring of 1916 near Pond Inlet, as a young man he traveled extensively in the area of Baffin and Somerset islands. He lost his first wife and six children to disease in the early 1940s. In 194...