I've been wanting to share about this community for many weeks but never got to it. Grise Fiord is Canada's most northern civilian community. (Alert is farther north but is just researchers) The settlement was created in the 50's by the Canadian Government who moves people from northern Quebec promising them housing and hunting and that they would be able to return home in one year in exchange for sovereignty in the high arctic. The offer to return was later withdrawn when the government realized they needed to keep people there in order to maintain their sovereignty. Oops! So its now a community of approx 120 people, surviving in the far, far north!
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