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ITK: Our 5000 Year Heritage: The Inuit Regions The regional administrative centres of Cambridge Bay in Kitikmeot, and Rankin Inlet in Kivalliq, have populations of 1,300 and 2,700 respectively. Kuujjuaq is the regional administrative centre with a population of approximately 1,500 residents. Nain, with a population of 1,200, is the administrative centre for the northern coastal region. www.itk.ca /5000-year-heritage/regions.php   (861 words)

Kitikmeot Corporation During the week of September 25th, the “Kitikmeot Reads” project was initiated at all 8 schools in the Kitikmeot Region. Kitikmeot Corporation does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of the information, data, opinions, advice, or statements accessed through links to other sites, and when you access such sites, you are doing so at your own risk. In providing links to other sites, Kitikmeot Corporation is in no way acting as a publisher or disseminator of the material contained on those other sites and does not seek to monitor or control such sites, and such links should not be construed to mean that Kitikmeot Corporation is affiliated or associated with same. www.kitikmeotcorp.ca   (560 words)

Kitikmeot Corporation Kitikmeot Corporation is not directly involved in mining and exploration in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, but rather, indirectly involved through the provision of services to the industry. Kitikmeot Caterers is a joint venture between Kitikmeot Corporation and Pioneer Site Services, established to provide camp catering services to the mining and exploration sector, in both the NWT and Nunavut, as well as housekeeping and janitorial services for remote camps. Kitikmeot Explosives was established to provide packaged and bulk explosives, detonating systems, blasting accessories, as well as industrial, safety and oil field related supplies, to mining and exploration companies located in Nunavut. www.kitikmeotcorp.ca /mining.htm   (681 words)

Northern Ontario Business - Mine builder looks due North (06/05) The partnership will provide training and eventual job opportunities for the Inuit of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, while allowing Cementation to gain a permanent foothold in an area that is flourishing with diamond and gold exploration activity. The Kitikmeot Corporation is a well-known Inuit development group that has established a number of other businesses that service and support mining companies. Slack says establishing training opportunities for the Kitikmeot Inuit helps his company in the short term but should benefit the entire mining industry in the long run once development work is finished and mine operations begin. www.nob.on.ca /industry/mining/3395306-05-mine-builder.asp   (686 words)

[No title] The Kitikmeot region includes the art-producing settlements of Pelly Bay, Taloyoak and Gjoa Haven toward the east and Kugluktuk in the west. Repulse Bay, similar to Pelly Bay in the Kitikmeot, is known for small realistic sculptures in ivory or combinations of stone and antler. The Baffin Region encompasses all of Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. www.feheleyfinearts.com /about_inu/map/map.shtml   (728 words)

Regions of Nunavut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is a commonly-held misconception that Nunavut is made up of some of the former regions of the Northwest Territories, separated in their entirety. The regional divisions are distinct from the district system of dividing the Northwest Territories that dated to 1876 and was abolished when Nunavut was created. Nunavut encompasses the entirety of the District of Keewatin (which had differing boundaries from the Keewatin/Kivalliq regions), the majority of the District of Franklin and a small portion of the District of Mackenzie. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Nunavut_Regions   (173 words)

Musée d'art Inuit Brousseau | The Museum This region has established itself as the premiere art-producing area of Canada's Arctic since the late 1950's. The generally hard grey to fl stone types of the Kivalliq region have given rise to an aesthetic that tends to strip away detail and retains the stone's qualities of ruggedness and mass. Kitikmeot sculpture is marked by fantastic forms harbouring strange and bizarre shamanic and spirit themes. www.artinuit.ca /en/cartes.html   (318 words)

Kitikmeot Heritage Society - Research The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is committed to the preservation of Inuit heritage in the Kitikmeot region. In July of 2000, the Kitikmeot Heritage Society (KHS) began a collaborative oral history/archaeological research project with the University of Toronto. The Kitikmeot Heritage Society has initiated the Kitikmeot Atlas Project to ensure that the Inuktitut and Inuinaqtun place names of the Kitikmeot Region are recorded for the benefit of future generations of Nunavummiut. www.kitikmeotheritage.ca /research.htm   (554 words)

Alan Sim's Traditional Lyrics and Midi Files - Nunavut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) It is comprised of three regions, the Kitikmeot, Qikqtaaluk (Baffin) and Kivalliq (Keewatin) regions. The Kitikmeot Region consists of Bathurst Inlet, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Kugaaruk, Kugluktuk, Taloyoak and Umingmaktok. The Kivalliq Region consists of Arviat, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Coral Harbour, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay and Whale Cove. www.alansim.com /ycb/nunavut.html   (131 words)

Kitikmeot Corporation Kitikmeot Corporation is the economic development arm of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, and is responsible for developing business opportunities that will build an economic base in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. We work with a number of other organizations in the Kitikmeot Region and Nunavut, in initiating and implementing various training programs, as well as employment opportunities in a number of industries. KEDC is the economic development arm of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA), serving Nunavut Land Claims beneficiaries in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. www.kitikmeotcorp.ca /training.htm   (636 words)

Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kitikmeot Region was part of the Northwest Territories until division in April 1999 when most of the region became part of Nunavut. Originally the entire region was part of the Fort Smith Region, Northwest Territories and was later called the "Central Arctic Region". However, for NWT election purposes Holman was included in the Nunakput district unklike the rest of the Kitikmeot. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitikmeot_Region,_Northwest_Territories   (177 words)

Inuit Art - Eskimo Art in Canada's Arctic Kitikmeot Region Differences in geology, flora and fauna between the various communities, has resulted in distinctively different regional styles and forms, ranging from naturalism or decorative stylization to minimal abstraction and from brutal expressionism to whimsical surrealism. The Kitikmeot region is 457,209 square km and includes the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island. This area (northwest of the Hudson Bay) is filled with a very hard and dense volcanic stone known as basalt (prior to the glacier age this area was mountainous). www.gallerycanada.com /inuit_art_info.asp   (1001 words)

Nunatsiaq News CAMBRIDGE BAY — Inuit in the Kitikmeot region are gearing up for new jobs in mining. Charlie Lyall, president of the Kitikmeot Corp., the development branch of the KIA told delegates attending the 2002 Mining Symposium in Cambridge Bay this weekend that the Kitikmeot is eagerly awaiting the influx of mining jobs. Bill Danyluk, who works for Echo Bay, the company that owns Lupin, said with six more years left in the life of the mine, the company is always looking for potential workers for the mill, the underground operations and the mine camp. www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut020412/news/nunavut/20412_10.html   (678 words)

Gallery Canada Inuit Art - Questions and Answers A. The Kitikmeot Region (Central Arctic) is one of three regions in Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory. When the Gallery owner was in the Kitikmeot region, he spoke with the artisans and learned that they had very few selling options. Many of the artists in the Kitikmeot region have their own special islands for certain colorations of dolomite and keep its location a secret from other artists, thus assuring themselves of future availability and exclusiveness. www.gallerycanada.com /FAQ.asp   (2823 words)

GSC Pacific (Sidney) - Boothia Peninsula Integrated Geoscience Project, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut: Innovative steps ... Phase 1 of fieldwork in 2005 focused on the southern portion of Boothia Mainland, and phase 2 of fieldwork intended to be completed in 2007. An aeromagnetic survey of the area (the first publicly available for the region) was released for in April 2005. In advance of field work, a comprehensive Remote Predictive Map (RPM) of the region was produced, which assisted in developing a more strategic approach to bedrock mapping, thus making time in the field more efficient. gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /org/sidney/sem/sem2006_02_09_e.php   (343 words)

::: Nunavut–Canada’s Arctic :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) For visitors wishing to travel to the western Kitikmeot region, your southern ‘gateway’ cities include Calgary and Edmonton (Alberta) flying thru Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay. Paddlers, fishers, and others enroute to the central Kivalliq region would fly from Winnipeg (Manitoba) direct to Rankin Inlet, and for Baffin Island destinations travellers board in either Ottawa (Ontario) or Montreal (Quebec) for direct service to Nunavut’s capital city of Iqaluit. Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, and Iqaluit are the transportation hubs for their respective regions. www.nunavuttourism.com /site?ID=35   (192 words)

Kitikmeot health centre gets boost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Cambridge Bay (June 02/03) - The Kitikmeot region's new health centre will be up and running in Cambridge Bay by August 2004, but the lack of housing and adequate infrastructure puts a damper on the project, says Mayor Keith Peterson. On Wednesday $4.5 million in equity funding was announced from Atuqtuarvik Corporation for the construction of the Kitikmeot Health Centre which will serve the region's 5,000 residents. Charlie Lyall, president and CEO of Kitikmeot Corporation, who is overseeing the project's funding, said the centre will greatly improve health service in the region. www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2003-06/jun2_03kit.html   (251 words)

Miramar & KIA Announce Updated Agreement in Principle for Inuit Impact and Benefits Agreement for Doris North Project, ... The KIA is the designated Inuit organization responsible for negotiating the IIBA on behalf of the Inuit of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. The IIBA satisfies the requirements of Article 26 of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) and outlines the benefits that will be provided to the Inuit as a result of the development and operation of the Doris North gold mine. In determining compensation for the use of Tail Lake for a tailings facility, the KIA conducted a detailed survey of a random sample of Kitikmeot Inuit residents. www.ccnmatthews.com /news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=577153   (521 words)

Nunasi Corporation Represents the interests of the Inuit of the Baffin Region, the High Arctic, and the Belcher Islands. Under the direction, control and accountability of KIA, both the Kitikmeot Corporation (KC) and the Kitikmeot Economic Development Commission (KEDC) have been delegated the responsibility of promoting economic development in the region. The Kitikmeot Corporation is the economic development arm of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, and is responsible for developing business opportunities that will build an economic base in the region. www.nunasi.com /links.htm   (443 words)

Kitikmeot Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Kitikmeot Region is the westernmost of the three regions within Nunavut: the Kitikmeot, Kivalliq (Keewatin) and Baffin Region in the east. The Inuit beneficiaries of the Kitikmeot Region are represented by the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, a birthright development corporation. There is significant potential for development in the resource-rich Kitikmeot Region, and over the next few years we can expect a period of dynamic growth. www.polarnet.ca /polarnet/kitikmeot.htm   (106 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Summary: The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is undertaking Phase II of the Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas Project. The interest lies not only in their identification with the formal region but also more fundamentally in their relation to the physical environment of this Arctic region. A first aim is to analyze the processes of region formation and regional identity by focusing on the different meanings the people of Nunavut and others give to the region. www.nunanet.com /~research/publications731.htm   (3732 words)

Kitikmeot Economic Development Commission (KEDC) The Kitikmeot Economic Development Commission (KEDC) is the economic development arm of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association and serves beneficiaries of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement in the Kitikmeot Region. Its mandate is to improve and promote the economic status and the self-reliance of Inuit and Inuit Communities in the Kitikmeot Region. A report is required during or at the end of the project to state how the funding and/or loans were spent. www.cbsc.org /servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_NU/display&c=Services&cid=1089652605776&lang=en   (1054 words)

2006 Kitikmeot Trade Show: Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Kitikmeot Trade Show provides a forum for networking and deal making that benefits the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. The trade show is open to exhibitors and delegates from the business community, service industries, government departments and regulatory agencies, Inuit organizations, and anyone else with an interest in exploring the economic potential of the Kitikmeot region. Don’t miss the new era of opportunity that is emerging in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut: plan to attend the 2006 Kitikmeot Trade Show! www.kitikmeottradeshow.ca   (234 words)

Nunatsiaq News Thanks to Polar Net all of the Kitikmeot's five communities will soon gain access to the Internet. Darrell Ohokannoak, the manager of Polar Net in Cambridge Bay, is now one of the Kitikmeot region's coolest computer geeks. So when Kitikmeot Corp., the birthright development corporation of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association, launched its own Internet service in Cambridge Bay, Darrel jumped at the chance to put his management studies training to work. www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut980930/nvt80904_01.html   (352 words)

WKSS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The Kitikmeot Hunters and Trappers' Association (KHTA) is made up of representatives of each Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO) in the Kitikmeot region. The KHTA manages the harvesting of wildlife by members of HTOs in the region and regulates harvesting practices and techniques. The KHTA allocates and enforces regional basic needs levels and adjusts these as necessary by making reallocations between HTOs. www.wkss.nt.ca /HTML/04_Partners/04_kitik.htm   (62 words)

Inuit Heritage Trust - Projects In 1999, the Elders that received this award were: Frank Analok of Cambridge Bay for the Kitikmeot Region, Barnabas Peryouar of Baker Lake for the Kivalliq Region and Cornelius Nutarak Sr. In 2001, the second Elder's Recognition Awards were given out to Jose Angutingnungniq of Kugaaruk in the Kitikmeot Region, Elisapee Tunnuq of Qamani'ttuaq in the Kivalliq Region and Enusilq Nashalik of Pangnirtung in the Baffin Region. In 2003, the third Elder's Recognition Awards were given out to Frank Analok of Cambridge Bay for the Kitikmeot Region, Seporah Malliki of Repulse Bay for the Kivalliq Region and Mina Inuktaluk of Sanikiluaq in the Baffin Region. www.ihti.ca /english/projects.html   (1286 words)

Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: The Americas: Indigenous: Inuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Kitikmeot Inuit Association - An organization to defend, preserve and promote social, cultural and economic benefits to Inuit of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. Satuumavik School - Serving the Inuit community in Kangiqsualujjuaq, in the Nunavik region of Northern Québec. Tuktu and Nogak Project - A community-driven effort to collect and share Inuit ecological knowledge of caribou and calving areas in the Bathurst Inlet area of the Kitikmeot region, Nunavut, Canada. dmoz.org /Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas/Indigenous/Inuit   (672 words)

Nunasi Corporation The Kitikmeot Reads program is funded by Nunasi Corporation and Kitikmeot Corporation, organizations that are committed to education and literacy in the Kitikmeot Region. Nunasi Corporation and Kitikmeot Corporation have formed a partnership to support lifelong learning and are very proud to have the opportunity to introduce this initiative. She comes to us from Kugluktuk in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut and is fluent in Innuinaqtun. www.nunasi.com /archives.htm   (945 words)

Kitikmeot Corporation - Kitikmeot Corporation is a birthright development corporation beneficially owned by the Inuit ... Kitikmeot Corporation - Kitikmeot Corporation is a birthright development corporation beneficially owned by the Inuit of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. Through our subsidiary corporations and affiliates KC plays a major role in the economic development of the Kitikmeot region. Kitikmeot Corporation is a birthright development corporation beneficially owned by the Inuit of the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. inuit.pail.ca /kitikmeot-corp.htm   (179 words)

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