Port Burwell, Nunavut Explained

Port Burwell is a harbour on western Killiniq Island, formed as an arm of Ungava Bay, at the mouth of Hudson Strait.[1] [2] Previously within Labrador,[3] and then the Northwest Territories,[4] it is now situated within the borders of Nunavut, Canada. Cape Chidley is to the northeast. The community of Port Burwell lies on the shore at 60.425°N -64.8333°W.

History

A Dominion Government Meteorological Station was established at Port Burwell during an 1884 voyage led by Commander Andrew R. Gordon, R.N., a retired Naval Officer, and assistant director of the Dominion Meteorological Service.[5] Gordon named it in honor of one of the expedition's meteorological observers, Herbert M. Burwell of London, Ontario.[6] Burwell was left in charge of Observing Station No. 1 in the port's harbour on the western side of Gray Strait until it closed in 1886.

Gordon returned to Port Burwell with a Hudson's Bay Company expedition in 1885 on the Alert,[7] and established an HBC trading post within the harbour.[8] In 1904, Moravian missionaries established a mission and trading post at the northwest corner of the harbour.[9] Twelve years later, the HBC moved one of their trading posts to the northeast area of the harbour.

In the 1920s, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment was set up at Port Burwell. The Royal Corps of Signals (RCCS) built a radio station, and the Coast Guard built a base.[10]

The settlement of Killiniq grew around the port. In 1978, all the residents were re-settled from the deep port community[11] to host communities of Nunavik.

External links

60.4°N -115°W

Notes and References

  1. Book: Robertson, Gordon . Memoirs of a very civil servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau. University of Toronto Press. 2000 . 178. 0-8020-4445-X. registration. port burwell nunavut..
  2. Book: Shelagh, Shelagh Grant. Arctic Justice: On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 . McGill-Queen's Press. 2005 . 224. 0-7735-2929-2.
  3. Brethren (1905), pp. 478
  4. Book: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Parliament, House of Commons, Canada. Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence: Procès-verbaux Et Témoignages. 1976 . Queen's Printer. Digitized Sep 15, 2008. 1.
  5. Book: de Trémaudan, Auguste Henri . The Hudson Bay Road (1498-1915). Dutton. 1916. Digitized: Jul 10, 2008. 53. port burwell Gordon..
  6. Book: Report of the Hudson's Bay under the Command of Lieut. A. R. Gordon, R.N, 1884. Meteorological Office. Toronto. 1884.
  7. News: A Hudson's Bay Expedition. May 21, 1885. The New York Times. 2009-07-19 .
  8. Book: Low, Albert Peter . Canada. Dept. of Marine and Fisheries. Report on the dominion government expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903-1904. Govt. Print. Bureau. 1906. Digitized Aug 11, 2006. 7. port burwell trading post..
  9. Gray. David H.. January 2005. Grenfell and the Labrador Coast. The Northern Mariner. cnrs-scrn.org. XV. 1. 16.
  10. Web site: Port Burwell, Labrador Assorted Detail - 1920-1929. pinetreeline.org. 2009-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20060709211831/http://www.pinetreeline.org/other/other8/other8ci.html. 2006-07-09. dead.
  11. Web site: 4.7. Port Burwell. ualberta.ca. 2009-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210101/http://archive1.macs.ualberta.ca/FindingAids/finleymcinnes/Finley%20McInnes4.html. 2011-07-06. dead.

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