Amadjuak Explained
| Amadjuak |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Nunavut |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Territory |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nunavut |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Qikiqtaaluk |
| Subdivision Type3: | Island |
| Subdivision Name3: | Baffin Island |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Coordinates: | 64.0167°N -111°W |
Amadjuak [1] is a former Inuit settlement on southern Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Amadjuak Bay is south, on Hudson Strait.[2]
History
The Hudson's Bay Company opened a fur trading post (#B380) at Amadjuak in 1921 and it remained in operation through 1933.[3] [4]
Notable residents
The artist, Ningeeuga Oshuitoq, was born at Amadjuak Camp in 1918.[5]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Amadjuak. 2000. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. bartleby.com. 2009-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20050310104205/http://www.bartleby.com/69/72/A04072.html. 2005-03-10. dead.
- Web site: Geographic features & Photographs around Amadjuak, in Nunavut, Canada . travelingluck.com. 2009-02-24.
- Book: Duffy, Ronald Quinn . The Road to Nunavut: The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit Since the Second World War. McGill-Queen's Press. 1987. 13. 0-7735-0619-5. registration. amadjuak hudson's..
- Web site: Hudson's Bay Company: Amadjuak . pam.minisisinc.com . Archives of Manitoba - Keystone Archives Descriptive Database . 26 March 2024.
- Web site: NINGEEUGA OSHUITOQ. inuitarteskimoart.com. 2009-02-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20110527052659/http://inuitarteskimoart.com/b-inuitarteskimoart-Oshuitoq_Ningeeuaga.html. 2011-05-27. dead.
