Chesterfield Inlet
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 Former Mission Hospital in Chesterfield Inlet, home for the severely disabled |
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| Location in Nunavut | |||
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| Territory : | Nunavut | ||
| Region: | Kivalliq | ||
| Coordinates : | 63 ° 20 ′ N , 90 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 141.1 km² | ||
| Residents : | 437 (as of 2016) | ||
| Population density : | 3.1 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Central Time ( UTC − 6 ) | ||
| Postal code : | XOC OBO | ||
| Area code : | +1 867 | ||
 Health Center in Chesterfield Inlet |
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Chesterfield Inlet (called by the Inuit Igluligaarjuk , "place with a few snowhouses"), Nunavut Territory , is a settlement on the west coast of Hudson Bay , south of the bay of the same name and about 100 kilometers north of Rankin Inlet with about 450 inhabitants (of which 93% Inuit).
The Chesterfield Inlet area has been inhabited by Inuit ancestors for about 4,000 years; Relics from the Thule culture can still be found here today . The first Europeans reached the area in the 18th century looking for the Northwest Passage , but only found larger whale populations. From the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, whalers came who let themselves be hunted by the Inuit caribou , hired them for whaling and traded with them.
It is true that the Hudson's Bay Company established its first permanent trading post in the Arctic here in 1911. In 1912 the Oblate Fathers established an important mission station for the Roman Catholic Church with a place of worship, hospital and mission school, imposing buildings that earned Chesterfield Inlet the reputation of the “Vatican of the North”. In 1951 the first public school was set up and looked after by Catholic nuns, the Gray Nuns (today Tangmavik Hotel). Until the mid-1950s, Chesterfield Inlet, which was given Hamlet status in 1980, was the most important center north of Churchill . Nevertheless, the settlement remained next to Whale Cove the smallest in the Kivalliq district ; Rankin Inlet with its nickel mine has overtaken it.
literature
- Miriam Dewar (Ed.): The Nunavut Handbook: Traveling in Canada's Arctic . Ayaya Marketing & Communications, Iqaluit / Ottawa 2004, ISBN 0-9736754-0-3 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Census Profile, 2016 Census. Chesterfield Inlet, Hamlet. In: Statistics Canada . August 9, 2019, accessed August 7, 2020 .