Qikiqtaaluk Region
{{Short description|Region of Nunavut, Canada}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Qikiqtaaluk
| official_name = Qikiqtaaluk Region
| native_name = {{native name|iu|ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ}}
| image_map = {{Location map+|CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk|caption=|float=center|places =
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Arctic Bay
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = left
|lat_deg = 73|lat_min = 02|lat_sec = 11|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 085|lon_min = 09|lon_sec = 09|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Kinngait
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = left
|lat_deg = 64|lat_min = 13|lat_sec = 54|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 076|lon_min = 32|lon_sec = 25|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Clyde River
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|lat_deg = 70|lat_min = 28|lat_sec = 26|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 068|lon_min = 35|lon_sec = 10|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Grise Fiord
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = top
|lat_deg = 76|lat_min = 25|lat_sec = 03|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 082|lon_min = 53|lon_sec = 38|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Sanirajak
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|lat_deg = 68|lat_min = 46|lat_sec = 38|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 081|lon_min = 13|lon_sec = 27|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Igloolik
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = left
|lat_deg = 69|lat_min = 22|lat_sec = 34|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 081|lon_min = 47|lon_sec = 58|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Iqaluit
|position = right
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets City.svg|marksize = 12|label_size = 140
|lat_deg = 63|lat_min = 44|lat_sec = 55|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 068|lon_min = 31|lon_sec = 11|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Kimmirut
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = bottom
|lat_deg = 62|lat_min = 50|lat_sec = 48|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 069|lon_min = 52|lon_sec = 07|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Pangnirtung
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = right
|lat_deg = 66|lat_min = 08|lat_sec = 52|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 065|lon_min = 41|lon_sec = 58|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Pond Inlet
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = top
|lat_deg = 72|lat_min = 41|lat_sec = 57|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 077|lon_min = 57|lon_sec = 33|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Qikiqtarjuaq
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|position = right
|lat_deg = 67|lat_min = 33|lat_sec = 29|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 064|lon_min = 01|lon_sec = 29|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Resolute
|position = top
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|lat_deg = 74|lat_min = 41|lat_sec = 51|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 094|lon_min = 49|lon_sec = 56|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk
|label = Sanikiluaq
|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 6
|lat_deg = 56|lat_min = 32|lat_sec = 34|lat_dir = N|lon_deg = 079|lon_min = 13|lon_sec = 30|lon_dir = W }}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk|label = Alert|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 3|position = right|lat_deg = 82.501667|lon_deg = -62.348056}}
{{Location map~ |CAN NU Qikiqtaaluk|label = Eureka|mark = Western Canada Map Assets Village.svg|marksize = 3|position = right|lat_deg = 79.988889|lon_deg = -85.940833}}
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| map_caption = Communities of the Qikiqtaaluk
| image_map1 = File:Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut.svg
| map_caption1 = Location in Nunavut
| seat_type = Regional centre
| seat = Iqaluit
| settlement_type = Region
| area_total_km2 = 989,879.35
| population_total = 18,988
| population_density_km2 = auto
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Canada
| subdivision_type1 = Territory
| subdivision_name1 = Nunavut
}}
{{Contains special characters|Canadian}}
The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ {{IPA|iu|qikiqtaːˈluk|pron}}) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost,{{cite journal|url=http://utpjournalsreview.com/index.php/CJOH/article/view/13313|title=Historians and Inuit: learning from the Qikiqtani Truth Commission, 2007-2010|journal=Canadian Journal of History|date=Winter 2015|access-date=19 April 2016|author=Philip Goldring|pages=492–523|publisher=University of Toronto via GALE|volume=50|number=3|doi=10.3138/CJH.ACH.50.3.005|s2cid=146493747|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506211941/http://utpjournalsreview.com/index.php/CJOH/article/view/13313|archive-date=May 6, 2016|url-status=dead}} northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island.[http://ihti.ca/eng/place-names/pn-seri.html IHT’s Nunavut Map Series] Although the Qikiqtaaluk Region is the most commonly used name in official contexts, several notable public organizations, including Statistics Canada prior to the 2021 Canadian census, use the older term Baffin Region.
With a population of 18,988 and an area of {{convert|989,879.35|km2|abbr=on}}, slightly smaller than Egypt, it is the largest and most populated of the three regions.{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CD&Code1=6204&Geo2=FED&Code2=62001&Data=Count&SearchText=Baffin&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204&TABID=1 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Baffin, Region [Census division] |publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-02}} It is also the largest second-level administrative division in the world.
The region consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands, Akimiski Island, Mansel Island, Prince Charles Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island, Baillie-Hamilton Island, Cornwallis Island, Bathurst Island, Amund Ringnes Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Ellesmere Island, the Melville Peninsula, the eastern part of Melville Island, and the northern parts of both Prince of Wales Island and Somerset Island, plus smaller islands in between. The regional centre, and territorial capital, is Iqaluit (population 7,740).{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204003&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Iqaluit&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204003&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Iqaluit |publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-02}} The Qikiqtaaluk Region spans the northernmost, easternmost, and southernmost areas of Nunavut.
Before 1999, the Qikiqtaaluk Region existed under slightly different boundaries in the Northwest Territories as the Baffin Region, in the northern part of the District of Keewatin.
The western half of the nearby Hans Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk, while the eastern half is part of Greenland and is in the municipality of Avannaata.
Communities
All of Qikiqtaaluk's thirteen communities are located on tidal water and just under half of its residents live in Nunavut's capital and only city, Iqaluit (7,740.). The majority of the rest live in twelve hamlets—Arctic Bay (868{{Cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204018&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Arctic%20Bay&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=11|title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Arctic Bay|author=Statistics Canada|access-date=18 February 2016}}), Kinngait (1,441{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204007&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Cape%20Dorset&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204007&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Cape Dorset |publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Clyde River (1,053{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204015&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Clyde%20River&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204015&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Clyde River|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Grise Fiord (129{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204025&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Grise%20Fiord&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204025&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Grrise Fiord|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Sanirajak (848{{cite web | url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204011&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Hall%20Beach&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204011&TABID=11 | title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Hall Beach| publisher=Statistics Canada | access-date=2017-03-03}}), Igloolik (1,682{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204012&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Igloolik&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204012&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Igloolik|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Kimmirut (389{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204005&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Kimmirut&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204005&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Kimmirut|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Pangnirtung (1,481{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204009&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Pangnirtung&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204009&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Pangnirtung|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Pond Inlet (1,617{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204020&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Pond%20Inlet&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204020&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Pond Inlet|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Qikiqtarjuaq (598{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204010&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Qikiqtarjuaq&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204010&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Qikiqtarjuaq|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}), Resolute (198{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204022&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Resolute&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204022&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Resolute|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}) and Sanikiluaq (882{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=6204001&Geo2=CD&Code2=6204&Data=Count&SearchText=Sanikiluaq&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=PR&GeoCode=6204001&TABID=11 |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census Sanikiluaq|publisher=Statistics Canada |access-date=2017-03-03}}). Alert (CFS Alert) and Eureka are part of Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized (permanent population 0{{cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Qikiqtaaluk%2C%20Unorganized&DGUIDlist=2021A00056204030&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0 |title=Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Profile table - Qikiqtaaluk, Unorganized, Unorganized (NO) Nunavut [Census subdivision]|access-date=April 11, 2023|date=February 1, 2023}}) areas in the Qikiqtaaluk.
Formerly, there was a mining town at Nanisivik. However, it and the Nanisivik Mine closed in 2002, with Nanisivik Airport closing in 2010 and all flights transferred to Arctic Bay Airport.
Like the majority of Canada's Inuit communities, the region's traditional foods include seal, Arctic char, walrus, polar bear, and caribou.
Inhabitants of the Qikiqtaaluk Region are called Qikiqtaalungmiut.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}
Iqaluit
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File:Iqlauit waterfront.JPG waterfront, 2011]]
Iqaluit has the Astro Hill Complex, the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum and the Legislative Building of Nunavut and the Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre.
Pre-contact
According to anthropologists and historians, the Inuit are the descendants of the Thule people who displaced the Dorset culture (in Inuktitut, the Tuniit).{{cite book
|last=Rigby
|first=Bruce
|chapter=101. Qaummaarviit Historic Park
|title=The 1998 Nunavut Handbook: Travelling in Canada's Arctic
|pages = 324–325
|url=http://www.nunavuthandbook.com/parks_pgs_297_331.pdf
|access-date=October 2, 2009
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529123547/http://www.nunavuthandbook.com/parks_pgs_297_331.pdf
|archive-date=May 29, 2006
}}{{cite web |url=http://www.historysociety.ca/content/en/pdfs/Jamieson2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030193732/http://www.historysociety.ca/content/en/pdfs/Jamieson2.pdf|archive-date=October 30, 2007 |first=John |last=Jamieson |title=The Dorsets: Depicting Culture Through Soapstone Carving| access-date =October 5, 2009}} By 1300 the Inuit had trade routes with more southern cultures.{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/aboriginal/innu_culture.html |title=Innu Culture: Innu-Inuit 'Warfare' |website=Indigenous Peoples |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |date=1999 |first=Adrian |last=Tanner |access-date=October 5, 2009}}
History
About 1910, Europeans markets increased their interest in white fox pelts. The distribution and mobility of Inuit changed as they expanded their traditional hunting and fishing routes to participate in the white fox fur trade. Traditional food staples—such as seal and caribou—were not always found in the same regions as white fox. The Hudson's Bay Company—which was chartered in 1670—had been opening fur trading posts throughout Inuit and First Nations territory. By 1910, the HBC was restructured into a lands sales department, retail and fur trade. The HBC dominated the fur trade under minimal supervision from the Canadian government, and some Anglican and Catholic missionaries who lived near remote northern hamlets. By 1922, most of imported goods acquired by Inuit were from the HBC.
Protected areas
File:Sirmilik Glacier 2 1997-08-06.jpg]]
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- Auyuittuq National Park
- Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
- Katannilik Territorial Park Reserve
- Kekerten Territorial Park
- Mallikjuak Territorial Park
- Pisuktinu-Tunngavik Territorial Park
- Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area
- Quammaarviit Territorial Park
- Quttinirpaaq National Park
- Sirmilik National Park
- Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park
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Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Qikiqtaaluk Region had a population of {{val|19355|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|5530|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|6573|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:19355-18988}}|18988|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|18988|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|970554.61|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|19355|970554.61|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000701 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census divisions | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=April 3, 2022}}
Surrounding census divisions
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- Division No. 11, Newfoundland and Labrador (Nunatsiavut)
- Division No. 23, Manitoba
- Inuvik Region
- Kivalliq Region
- Kitikmeot Region
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See also
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References
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Further reading
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- Kavik, Lisi, and Miriam Fleming. Qikiqtamiut Cookbook. [Sanikiluaq, Nunavut]: Municipality of Sanikiluaq, 2002. {{ISBN|1-896445-22-5}}
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External links
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- [http://www.explorenunavut.com/qikiqtaaluk.php Qikiqtaaluk Region information at Explore Nunavut]
{{Geographic location
| Centre = Qikitaaluk Region
| North = Arctic Ocean
| Northeast = Nares Strait
(Avannaata, Greenland, Danish Realm)
| East = Baffin Bay
| Southeast = Hudson Strait
(Nunatsiavut (Census Division No. 11), Newfoundland and Labrador)
| South = James Bay
(Kenora District & Cochrane District, Ontario / Jamésie, Eeyou Istchee, & Kativik Equivalent Territories, Quebec)
| Southwest = Hudson Bay
(Unorganized Census Division No. 23 / Town of Churchill, Manitoba)
| West = Kitikmeot Region / Kivalliq Region
| Northwest = Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories
}}
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{{Coord|70|N|080|W|region:CA-NU_type:adm2nd_scale:20000000|display=title|name=Qikiqtaaluk Region}}