• the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada?

Facts on topics related to Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Inuit

• anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
• Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals?
• Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America?
• Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
• Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
• a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec, in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s?
• in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
• in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
• in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?
• now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea?

Northwest Territories

• Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?
• the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada?
• the Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos?
• the electors of Inuvik Boot Lake have not voted in a Northwest Territories general election since 1999, as in every election since only one candidate has registered to run?
• the sixteen-year cabinet term of Stephen Kakfwi is the longest in the Northwest Territories' history?

Nunavut

• Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?
• prior to reclamation of the Polaris mine, the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated ore was the largest building in Nunavut?
• the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
• the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture, Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut, Canada?