Baker Lake

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Baker Lake, Nunavut, incorporated as a hamlet in 1977, population 1872 (2011c), 1728 (2006c). The Hamlet of Baker Lake is situated 160 km east of the TREELINE at the northwest end of Baker Lake (size 1887 km2), and is approximately at the geographic centre of Canada. It is the only inland Inuit community in NUNAVUT. Its people, the CARIBOU INUIT, have evolved a lifestyle dependent on caribou and fish of the interior rather than on the sea mammals that sustain other Inuit groups.

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The community developed rapidly after WWII, when it was an advance base for the Canadian Army's "Operation Muskox" SNOWMOBILE expedition. In the late 1970s the hamlet made national headlines in a landmark ABORIGINAL RIGHTS court case, when its residents contested the right of companies to mine URANIUM in the area.

The majority of the Inuit population still subsists on traditional hunting and carving activities. A number of artists are renowned for their printmaking.

See also INUIT PRINTMAKING.

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Baker Lake, Nunavut (photo by T.K. Tomlinson).
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Jessie Oonark, Baker Lake, NWT (reproduced with the permission of the Estate of Jessie Oonark).

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Links to Other Sites
The Barren Lands
This site offers an extensive online collection of archival documents from two Geological Survey of Canada expditions to the Barren Lands region located in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and in the area now known as Nunavut. From the University of Toronto.

Nunavut Tourism
Plan your next Arctic adventure at this Nunavut Tourism website. Offers information about local communities, history and culture, recreational opportunities, and much more.

Influences and Interactions
An overview of the unique regional styles of Inuit sculpture. From the katilvik.com website.

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