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Pangnirtung

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pangnirtung , trading post, E Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. It is a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a center for Inuit artworks. ... Read more
Auyuittuq National Park
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , c.8,290 sq mi (21,470 sq km), E Baffin Island near Pangnirtung, Nunavut Territory, Canada; est. 1972. Located on the Cumberland Peninsula, it was the first Canadian national park to be created... Read more
Nunavut
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces ...Population City Population, 2006 Iqaluit 6,184 Rankin Inlet 2,358 Arviat 2,060 Baker Lake 1,728 Igloolik 1,538 Cambridge Bay 1,477 Pangnirtung 1,325 Pond Inlet 1,315 Kugluktuk 1,302 Cape Dorset 1,236 Average January temperatures range from − 4 ° f... Read more

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TOURISTS DISCOVER THE SPLENDORS OF CANADA'S FROZEN FRONTIER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/29/1989; ; 700+ words ; PANGNIRTUNG, Northwest Territories - It was not a storm. Nothing...around to issue a weather forecast. The nearest town, Pangnirtung, population 1,000, does have a radio station (broadcasting...eggs, dwindling reserves of canned milk, no way out. Pangnirtung was three hours by boat, or an eight-hour ... Read more
Inuit harpoons snare environmentalists' ire
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/27/1998; ; 700+ words ; PANGNIRTUNG, Northwest Territories -- Word of the feat swept through...commercial whaling, earlier this year condemned the Pangnirtung hunt in a formal resolution and implored Canada to ban...any regulations," said Eric Joamie, a leader of the Pangnirtung Hunters Association. Nunavut, which means "Our ... Read more
Culture Corrosion in Canada's North; Forced Into the Modern World, Indigenous Inuit Struggle to Cope
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/16/2001; ; 700+ words ; PANGNIRTUNG, Nunavut -- The elders still speak of it, the time when...is sitting in a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, three miles from a fjord. A Jennifer Lopez...that makes us Inuit." So today the 1,240 people of Pangnirtung walk between two cultures, belonging fully to neither... Read more
INUIT HUNTERS KILL WHALE IN A CONTROVERSIAL RITUAL.(GENERAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC); 7/23/1998; 165 words ; PANGNIRTUNG, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES -- Inuit hunters in canoes have killed a bowhead whale in the Canadian Arctic, sparking celebrations...dismaying conservationists. It was the first hunt of this endangered species in the small Baffin Island community of Pangnirtung in 50 years. People are very, very happy about ... Read more
Death and Life in the Canadian Arctic: Baffin Island, Canada
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; St. Luke's church in Pangnirtung, Baffin Island is one of fifty congregations...brief summertime. The village of Pangnirtung (locally known as "Pang") is on...the Cumberland Sound, across from Pangnirtung fjord. One day the family's dogs... Read more
Whale hunt provokes controversy // Canadian Inuit defend tradition
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/14/1998; ; 537 words ; ...heroes in their Baffin Island hometown of Pangnirtung, site of the last bowhead whale hunt...apologies. Eric Joamie, a leader of the Pangnirtung hunters association, said the hunters...carcass was burned. Civic leaders in Pangnirtung are determined to avoid the mistakes... Read more
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Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine; 11/19/2001; ; 255 words ; SUNRISE OVER PANGNIRTUNG: The Story of Otto Schaefer MD Gerald...north. When the Schaefers moved to Pangnirtung on Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island...Meanwhile, the Schaefers' home at Pangnirtung, seemingly so bleak, became their... Read more
INUIT GOING FOR POLITICAL QUARRY AS WELL AS A WHALE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/14/1998; 700+ words ; ...heroes in their Baffin Island hometown of Pangnirtung, where the last bowhead whale hunt occurred...apologies. Eric Joamie, a leader of the Pangnirtung hunters association, said the hunters...carcass was burned. Civic leaders in Pangnirtung were determined to avoid the mistakes... Read more
Festival celebrates Aboriginal storytelling
Magazine article from: Saskatchewan Sage; 4/1/2004; ; 592 words ; ...stage with a Saskatchewan folk singer and throat singers from Pangnirtung, Nunavut. The next night, it was an event of modern dance...members of Siqiniup Qilauta (The Sun's Drum). The two are from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, but now make their home in Ottawa. Later, the alternative... Read more
INUITS PLAN WHALE HUNT, HARPOON A CONTROVERSY A CULTURE CONFRONTS CONSERVATION CONCERNS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/14/1998; 700+ words ; ...heroes in their Baffin Island hometown of Pangnirtung, where the last bowhead whale hunt occurred...apologies. Eric Joamie, a leader of the Pangnirtung hunters association, said the hunters...carcass was burned. Civic leaders in Pangnirtung are determined to avoid the mistakes... Read more

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