Arctic Smoke & Mirrors
Author: Gerard I. Kenney
Publisher: Prescott, Ont. : Voyageur Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving conditions on the east coast of Hudson Bay forty years ago were desperate. In 1953, a number of Inuit families were moved by the Canadian government for that coast in Northern Quebec and Baffin Island to the high Arctic Islands of Ellesmere and Cornwallis. The reason for the moves as stated by the government at the time was to take the Inuit away from destitution in Northern Quebec and to relocate them in an area of better game and fur trapping potential. In the 1970's, Inuit spokepersons began to make representations to the effect that the people had been moved against their will from a place of abundance to a place of harshness and suffering in order to protect Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. Today, in the 1990's, they are claiming a $10,000,000 settlement to compensate for wrongdoing and suffering -- from Preface.