Chesterfield Inlet has been permanently settled since 1910, making it one of the oldest of the modern Inuit settlements in the Arctic. Long before that, the inlet on Fish Bay was a popular place to camp. Visitors will find ancient Thule sites nearby where ancient Thule tent rings and animal traps still stand today. Inuit still travel to this area each year to hunt and fish. You can learn about the community by hiking the Chesterfield Inlet Historic Trail.
Qikiqtarjuaq ,Nunavut, CanadaQikiqtarjuaq is called the iceberg capital of the world. The northern cape near the town captures many of the icebergs that travel down Davis Strait from Greenland. This area is rich in marine mammal wildlife. Near Qikiqtarjuaq the rugged peaks of Baffin Island offer spectacular beauty both from the air and on the ground. These mountains are the highest in North America east of the Rockies.( more. )
Igloolik is a tiny island located just west of Baffin Island with a population of 1,538 people. If you were interested you could walk around this tiny island in just a day. The Inuit people located to this island because it was close to the ice flowage that offered excellent hunting and fishing opportunities to feed their families.
Here at the Umingmak Lodge Bed & Breakfast, we treat our clients a little differently. We don’t want our guests to think of our Cambridge Bay lodge merely as another bed and breakfast; we want our guests to think of it as their home. We always go that extra mile to make sure that you feel comfortable and have everything you need.
Established in 1994, PAIL is 100% owned and controlled by the Inuit in the four Inuit Land Claim Settlement Regions of Canada (Inuvialuit, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut), acting through their respective Birthright Corporations.PAIL's seven Shareholder