NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Rowley, Susan
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher has been contracted by Parks Canada to write a history of Nunavut for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. This study will focus on two areas: 1/features of the Inuit culture common throughout Nunavut and 2/the different regional groups within Nunavut. Through interviews and consultation with the Igloolik Elders' Society, a history of Igloolik will be written. Drafts of...

Principal Investigator: Henderson, Lyle
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will work with Luke Suluk, a recognized expert regarding archaeology and traditional Padlimiut culture. Mr. Suluk will identify different archaeological features and describe their significance. Elders and youth from Arviat will also participate in the research. This research will support a presentation to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to determine if Arviaq sh...

Principal Investigator: Webster, Deborah
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: This oral history project is complementary to an archaeological survey which will be conducted in the Thirty Mile Lake area. The research team will be conducting interviews with Baker Lake elders in order to determine the significance of this area to wildlife and people. This research will support a presentation to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to determine if this area should...

Principal Investigator: Longworth, Bob
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: During the period between 1942 and 1963, Inuit in the southern portion of Baffin Island when through a major transition from living off the land in the traditional way to living in permanent settlements. The researchers will collect information about this period of development in the history of Apex and Iqaluit by gathering information from printed materials as well as interviews with long-term r...

Principal Investigator: Hallendy, Norman
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researchers will locate the sacred site - Akitsiraqvik. The last remaining Elder who knows the location of the site will act as guide and will interpret the meaning of this place where conflicts were resolved, "justice" exercised and where it is believed Shamen occassionally practised....

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will carry out interviews with elders to elicit information on heritage sites considered significant to the Inuvialuit and that warrant protection should development occur. Information will also be gathered on traditional land use, in terms of how people decided where and when to move and the activities carried on at different localities....

Principal Investigator: Stevenson, Marc G.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To establish, through oral history, the macro- and micro-settlement patterns of the Cumberland Sound Inuit during the Whaling Era. Elerly informants will be questioned about the locations, and factors influencing their selection of 1)sites around the sound, and 2)dwellings within settlements. The ultimate aim of this research is to formulate a model of Inuit sociopolitical organization during th...

Principal Investigator: Braidwood, Brian R.
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: To develop a classification and evaluation system for unique areas through personal interviews, local resource managers, regarding special features within their jurisdiciton....

Principal Investigator: MacInnis, J.B.
Licensed Year(s): 1982
Summary: To undertake a multi-disciplinary team under ice to photograph & do scientific reconnaissance on the sunken HMS BREADALBANE ( a British ship sunk off Beechy Island 129 years ago)....

Principal Investigator: King, Lorenz
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: Establishment of meterorology station at their base camp. Geodetic surveying of slopes, push moraines and raised beaches; mapping of same. Hammer seismic measurments, ground and rock temperature measurements, digging for radiocarbon and palynological samples in raised beaches and moraines, mapping of old Eskimo sites and general observations of plants and wildlife....