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There are 12 National Historic Sites designated in Nunavut, one of which is in the national park system, administered by Parks Canada (identified below by the beaver icon ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Related to the Sites, National Historic Events also occurred in Nunavut, and are identified at places associated with them, using the same style of federal ...
Nattilik Heritage Centre is a museum in Gjoa Haven, King William Island, Nunavut, Canada. It presents the history and culture of the local Inuit. It presents the history and culture of the local Inuit.
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image Fort Conger: Lady Franklin Bay Alert NU : Nunavut () Q3077812: More images: Arvia'juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk National Historic Site
Iqaluit [a] is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.It is the territory's largest community and its only city, and the northernmost city in Canada. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast on which the city is situated.
The history of Nunavut covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Eskimo thousands of years ago to present day. Prior to the colonization of the continent by Europeans, the lands encompassing present-day Nunavut were inhabited by several historical cultural groups, including the Pre-Dorset , the Dorsets , the Thule and their descendants ...
Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning "high mountain" or "where the hills are"; [6] [7] Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, [8] is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island [9] near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Fort Ross is an abandoned former trading post on Somerset Island, in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Founded in 1937, it was the last trading post to be established by the Hudson's Bay Company. It was operational for only eleven years, being abandoned in 1948, as severe ice conditions in the surrounding waters made the site hard to ...
The Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum is a museum of Nunavut history and Inuit culture, located in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [1] [2] The museum was founded in 1969 by two employees of Canada's Department of Indian Affairs. [3] The museum is housed in a former Hudson's Bay Company building. [4] The building was moved on tracks from Apex, Nunavut to Iqaluit ...