Lazaroosie Kyak (1919-1976)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Pilot, R.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; Fur trade; History; Inuit; Kyak; Lazaroosie; 1919-1976; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Sleds; St. Roch (Ship); Baffin Island waters; Nunavut; Baffin Island; Ellesmere Island waters; Ellesmere Island; Grise Fiord (Settlement); Northwest Passage; Pond Inlet (Hamlet); Arctic; Bylot Island; Grise Fiord; Patience; Pond Inlet; Baffin; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65224

. Kyak was born in a small Inuit hunting camp near Button Point on Bylot Island, at a time when events in history would have a profound effect on the lives and culture of his people. . Kyak was engaged by the RCMP to assist many patrols out of Pond Inlet during the early 1940s. Members of the RCMP w...