| | Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord), Ausuittuq, Ausuittuq |
 | | The "recent" history of Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord), the northernmost Canadian Inuit community, began in 1953 when the Canadian government moved four Inuit families from the east coast of Hudson Bay to the south-east of Ellesmere Island, without taking account of the fact that these people were accustomed to quite different living conditions. |
 | | The two Inuit groups have failed to integrate and have retained their separate languages and customs; even as late as 1962, when Grise Fiord was founded as a settlement, their houses were kept separate. |
 | | In spite of Grise Fjord being a show-piece settlement with a number of advantages - relatively well provided with the benefits of "civilization" - these are more than offset by the disadvantages of a small, still somewhat "artificial" settlement with a number of social problems, not the least of which is finding a suitable spouse. |
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