Qamani’tuac

The author is retired. In the 1970s, he was a navigating officer on Canadian Coast Guard ships. He revisited student life for his own interests and has seven postsecondary diplomas. He is presently registered in the Masters of World Literatures and Cultures. This article is adapted from a paper subm...

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Main Author: Auclair, Raymond
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Inuit history
Baker Lake
inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41175
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spelling ftunivottawa:oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/41175 2023-05-15T15:35:52+02:00 Qamani’tuac Auclair, Raymond 2018 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41175 en eng Auclair, Raymond. “Qamani’tuac.” Confetti: A World Literatures and Cultures Journal / Un journal de littératures et cultures du monde, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 24-35. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41175 Inuit history Baker Lake Article 2018 ftunivottawa 2021-01-04T18:27:36Z The author is retired. In the 1970s, he was a navigating officer on Canadian Coast Guard ships. He revisited student life for his own interests and has seven postsecondary diplomas. He is presently registered in the Masters of World Literatures and Cultures. This article is adapted from a paper submitted for LCM5302 Travel and [literary] Theory, in October 2017. In Inuit culture and history, the town of Baker Lake should not exist. It was a seasonal camp where Inuit from different groups would gather, in summer, for hunting and fishing, with the goal of replenishing the supplies of their individual communities. The interference from European colonizers and the Canadian government has contributed to the artificial creation of Baker Lake. Was it an attempt to build Utopia? The author mixes his own travel memories (1973) with his literature research, in order to describe this mystery. Article in Journal/Newspaper Baker Lake inuit uO Research (University of Ottawa - uOttawa)
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Baker Lake
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Baker Lake
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description The author is retired. In the 1970s, he was a navigating officer on Canadian Coast Guard ships. He revisited student life for his own interests and has seven postsecondary diplomas. He is presently registered in the Masters of World Literatures and Cultures. This article is adapted from a paper submitted for LCM5302 Travel and [literary] Theory, in October 2017. In Inuit culture and history, the town of Baker Lake should not exist. It was a seasonal camp where Inuit from different groups would gather, in summer, for hunting and fishing, with the goal of replenishing the supplies of their individual communities. The interference from European colonizers and the Canadian government has contributed to the artificial creation of Baker Lake. Was it an attempt to build Utopia? The author mixes his own travel memories (1973) with his literature research, in order to describe this mystery.
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op_relation Auclair, Raymond. “Qamani’tuac.” Confetti: A World Literatures and Cultures Journal / Un journal de littératures et cultures du monde, vol. 4, 2018, pp. 24-35.
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