Assessment of the factual basis of certain allegations made before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs concerning the relocation of Inukjuak Inuit families in the 1950s : report / submitted to:...: R5-498/1990E-PDF

"At its meeting on March 19, 1990, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs heard Inuit witnesses and received written evidence from them, alleging that the federal government actively promoted the relocation of Inuit families from the community of Port Hanison, now called Inukjuak, in Arctic Quebec, to Craig Harbour, Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay in the Northwest Territories, in the 1950s, primarily out of concern for the protection of Canadian sovereignty."--Executive Summary, p. 1.

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Department/Agency Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs. Northern Affairs Program.
Hickling Corporation.
Title Assessment of the factual basis of certain allegations made before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs concerning the relocation of Inukjuak Inuit families in the 1950s : report / submitted to: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Northern Program ; prepared by: Hickling Corporation.
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "September, 1990."
Digitized edition from print [produced by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada].
Publishing information [Ottawa?] : Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Northern Program, 1990.
Description 1 v. (various pagings) : photographs
Catalogue number
  • R5-498/1990E-PDF
Subject terms Inuit
Canadian history
Aboriginal affairs
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