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Chesterfield Inlet

Chesterfield Inlet

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Oct 20, 2026

APTN News Brief

APTN News Brief

Alberta referendum prompts Treaty 6 First Nations mobilization

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

#62 CA
Rick HarpHOST
5:29
And in the capital city of Iqaluit, a 32-year-old woman was charged with second-degree murder in the October 17th death of a 37-year-old woman, this a day after a 21-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder in the October 6th death of a 38-year-old man.
Rick HarpHOST
5:45
Meanwhile, a youth arrested in Chesterfield Inlet October 9th was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an adult male.
Rick HarpHOST
5:52
All court dates have been set for mid-November.
Rick HarpHOST
5:55
According to Nunavut RCMP, nine homicides have been reported this year so far, the highest number in a single year since Nunavut officially became a territory in 1999.

Unknown podcast

What North of North Assumes You Know About Inuit

Oct 14 · 1 Mention

CornHOST
13:34
Then Christianity arrives.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
13:37
The first Anglican mission post was at Blacklead Island in 1894, the first Catholic mission at Chesterfield Inlet in 1912.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
13:45
By the mid-20th century, most Inuit had formally converted.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
13:49
And as of the 2021 census, 71% of Canadian Inuit identify as Christian.

Unknown podcast

Punch Dickins, the Barren Lands Survey of Nineteen Twenty-Eight, and the Fokker Super Universal That Mapped Canada's Unmapped North

Oct 11 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
6:25
Punch flew north from Fort McMurray, pushing into the country east of Great Slave Lake, working his way across the great watershed of the Thelon River.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:33
The Thelon drains an enormous swath of what is now the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, running roughly eastward toward Baker Lake, which sits at the inland end of Chesterfield Inlet, before the country finally gives way to Hudson Bay.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:45
He was laying eyes on country that no aircraft had ever seen.
Tail DraggerHOST
6:48
Not just mapping it in a formal sense, but simply seeing it, the first human eyes to observe that particular bend in that particular unnamed river from the air.

Unknown podcast

Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North-Stephen Leacock

Oct 6 · 1 Mention

speaker_0NARRATOR
57:02
The little party followed on the former trail along the Seal River, and thence, with the first signs of opening spring, struck northwards over the barren grounds.
speaker_0NARRATOR
57:12
Leaving the woods entirely behind, Hearne found himself in the broken and desolate country between Fort Church Hill and the three or four great rivers, still almost unknown, that flow into the headwaters of Chesterfield Inlet.
speaker_0NARRATOR
57:27
In the beginning of June, as the snow began to melt, progress grew more and more difficult.
speaker_0NARRATOR
57:33
Snowshoes became a useless encumbrance, and on the tenth of the month even the sledges were abandoned.

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