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Artist's legacy honours exiles
Nuuk :: Greenland | about 10 hours ago
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Looty Pijamini plans to sculpt this two-metre piece of granite into a monument commemorating High Arctic exiles’ grief — and hope. Nunavut–The Mounties tasked with protecting the Inuit exiles' welfare in the 1950s used sled dogs to work their beat. The...
Tags: Looty Pijamini, RCMP, Grise Fiord, sled dogs, polar bears, Greenland, Nuuk, Ellesmere Island, Indigenous peoples of North America, Hunter-gatherers, Baffin Bay, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Arctic Cordillera, Inuit, Grise Fiord Nunavut
Exiles' new life was 'like a bad dream'
Toronto :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Elizabeth Roberts recalls the trauma her family went through helping tend to the Inuit who were moved to the inhospitable community of Resolute...They gave up the support of their village's nursing station and school in northern Quebec to help Canada...
Tags: Elizabeth Roberts, RCMP, Grise Fiord, Johnnie, northern quebec, Qikiqtani Inuit Association, Simeonie, Canada, Toronto, Ellesmere Island, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Eskimos, Indigenous peoples of North America, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Inuit, Grise Fiord Nunavut
Her quest for justice started early
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility High Arctic exile Martha Flaherty was forced to wear a tag and answer to the number on it...The white people running things on the journey to exile expected quiet submission from the Inuit and usually got it...When they were herded into a damp, dimly...
Tags: Rynee Flaherty, Canada, Ottawa, Grise Fiord Nunavut, Inuit, Inukjuak Quebec, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Cordillera, Indigenous peoples of North America, High Arctic relocation, Hunter-gatherers, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Martha Jones, Robert J. Flaherty, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Nanook of the North, Nunavut, Arctic Ocean, Doctor
Arctic ice melting at record rate: Scientists
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility That record may yet be surpassed this year, the centre said, despite predictions earlier this summer by several scientific institutions that a colder winter would likely lead to a less severe meltdown in 2008. "Following a record rate of ice loss through...
Tags: ice shelves, Arctic Ocean, Ellesmere Island, Canada, arctic ice, sea ice, square mile, climate change, square kilometers, Canadian Arctic
Massive Canada Arctic ice shelf breaks away
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Extensive new cracks across remaining parts of the largest remaining ice shelf, the Ward Hunt, mean that it will continue to disintegrate in the coming years," he said. The first sign of serious recent erosion in the five shelves came in late July, when...
Tags: Canada, Ellesmere Island, ice shelves, mile ice, Baird, breaks away, sq km, shelf breaks
Canadian ice shelf sheds big chunk
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Officials have said that a big chunk of ice broke off Canada�s largest remaining ice shelf last week. Trent University researcher Derek Mueller said it wouldn�t surprise him if even more ice broke off this summer from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, a vast...
Tags: arctic, canada, flooding, ice shelf, park, Ellesmere Island, Canadaï, ellesmere islands, ward hunt, hunt ice
Giant Arctic ice sheet snaps off
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 20 square kilometer ice sheet is believed to be the biggest ice chunk to fracture in the region since 2005, BBC reported...Disraeli Fjord which froze under the shelf; the fracture may have been caused by a change in process. Researchers warn that...
Tags: arctic, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island, broke away, ice sheet, shelf broke, ward hunt
Giant chunks break off Canadian ice shelf
Edmonton :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Scientists had already identified deep cracks in the Ward Hunt shelf, which measures around 400 square km. The shelf is one of five along Ellesmere Island in the northern Arctic. "Because the break-off occurred between two large parallel cracks they're...
Tags: arctic, global warming, ice sheet, ice shelf, Ellesmere Island
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