Ottawa Islands

Coordinates: 59°30′N 80°25′W / 59.500°N 80.417°W / 59.500; -80.417
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Ottawa Islands
Native name:
Arviliit or Arqvilliit
Ottawa Islands is located in Nunavut
Ottawa Islands
Ottawa Islands
Ottawa Islands is located in Canada
Ottawa Islands
Ottawa Islands
Geography
LocationHudson Bay, Nunavik Marine Region
Coordinates59°30′N 80°25′W / 59.500°N 80.417°W / 59.500; -80.417
ArchipelagoArctic Archipelago
Total islands24
Major islandsBooth Island, Bronson Island, Eddy Island, Gilmour Island, J. Gordon Island, Pattee Island, Perley Island
Highest elevation549 m (1801 ft)
Administration
Canada
Nunavik
Demographics
PopulationCurrently Uninhabited, access and harvest rights by Nunavik Inuit
Source: Ottawa Islands at Atlas of Canada

The Ottawa Islands (

Crown Land upon the creation of Nunavut in 1999. Nunavik Inuit have occupied these islands since time immemorial and gained constitutionally-protected harvest and access rights under the Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement signed in 2007.[4][5]

Geography

The Ottawa Islands are situated on the barren and rocky east coast of Hudson Bay.

Capt. Foxe says "Wee came by a small Iland at clocke one, the highest I haue seene since I came from Brook Cobham; the deep 70 fathome. I named the Ile Sleepe."[9] Foxe named the islands just north of Lancaster Isle, "Ile Sleepe". According to Manning, the name, having eventually changed to "Sleeper Island" or "The Sleepers", could be used "for the islands between and including Lancaster and Ottawa Islands."[8]

Canada, Routes of Explorers, 1497 to 1905

Further coordinate readings

Fauna

The Ottawa Islands and the southwardly

sloops of the Hudson's Bay Company with some whales being harvested in the Ottawa Islands.[11] The islands are important habitat for polar bears[12]
and many waterfowl. The waters surrounding the islands are important habitat for seals, walrus and bowhead and beluga whales.

See also

References

  1. ^ Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254
  2. ^ "Arviliit". Avataq Cultural Institute, The Nunatop Project.
  3. ^ a b Columbia Gazetteer of North America Archived 2005-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 30, 2007
  4. ^ "Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement" (PDF).
  5. ^ "NILCA". Makivik Corporation.
  6. ^ a b "Hudson Bay." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia University Press., 2003. Answers.com 26 Jan. 2007. Accessed 01-26-2007.
  7. doi:10.2307/1789902, Republished by JSTOR
    , Accessed 01-26-2007.
  8. ^
    doi:10.2307/1789902, Republished
    by JSTOR, Accessed 01-26-2007.
  9. ^ Miller Christy, op. cit. p.369. Taken from; Manning, T.H., op. cit.
  10. ^ "National Marine Conservation Areas of Canada: Canada's National Marine Conservation Areas System Plan: James Bay: The Wildlife". Parks Canada Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Last Updated: 2006-11-17, Accessed 01-26-2007.
  11. ^ Government of Canada - Fisheries and Oceans Canada. "Harvesting" Chapter 14.5.3, page 14-19. Information originally sourced from (Flaherty 1918; Newspaper Clipping in PAC, MG 29, A58, Vol 8.,File 5 in Reeves and Mitchell 1987). Accessed 06-11-2007
  12. ^ "Nunavik Inuit Knowledge and Observations of Polar Bears" (PDF). Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board.

Bibliography

  • Manning, T. H. Birds and Mammals of the Belcher, Sleeper, Ottawa and King George Islands, and Northwest Territories. Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, 1976.
  • Manning, T.H., "Ruins of Eskimo Stone Houses on the East Side of Hudson Bay". American Antiquity, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jan., 1946), pp. 201–202.
    doi:10.2307/275565, Republished by JSTOR, Web Link
    , Accessed 01-26-2007.

External links
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