Community location: Canada

• The Northerners

  Visitors may sometimes get the impression that Northerners, like their climate, are cold. Please do not be mistaken.

• Grise Fiord

  The Inuktitut name for our community is Ausuittuq, which means “place that never thaws”.

• Pond Inlet

  The Inuktut name for our community is Mittimatalik, which has two competing origin stories. Some of us think it means “the landing place”, referring to a large rock on which ‘seagulls used to alight and from which they used to fish.’ Others believe it means “place where Mittima is buried.” No one knows who Mittima was or where he came from.