Scouting in the Communities
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NWT Apex, Nunavut Arctic Red River, NWT Arviat, Nunavut Baker Lake, Nunavut Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Cape Dorset, Nunavut Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut Clyde River, NWT Colville Lake, NWT Coral Harbour, Nunavut Deline, NWT Detah, NWT Discovery Townsite, NWT Enterprise, NWT Fort Franklin, NWT Fort Good Hope, NWT Fort Macpherson, NWT Fort Norman, NWT Fort Liard, NWT Fort Providence, NWT Fort Resolution, NWT |
Fort Simpson,
NWT Fort Smith, NWT Gjoa Haven, Nunavut Grise Fiord, Nunavut Hall Beach, Nunavut Hay River, NWT Holman Island, NWT Igloolik, Nunavut Iqaluit, Nunavut Inuvik, NWT Jean Marie River, NWT Kugluktuk, Nunavut Lake Harbour, Nunavut Lutselk'e, NWT Lynx River, NWT Nahanni Butte, NWT Nanisivik Mine, Nunavut Ndilo, NWT Norman Wells, NWT Paulatuk, NWT Pangnirtung, Nunavut Pelly Bay, Nunavut |
Pine Point,
NWT Pond Inlet, Nunavut Port Radium, NWT Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut Rae Lakes, NWT Rae - Edzo, NWT Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Repulse Bay, Nunavut Resolute Bay, Nunavut Rocher River, NWT Sachs Harbour, NWT Sankiluaq, Nunavut Spence Bay, Nunavut Tsiigehtchic, NWT Tuktoyuktuk, NWT Tulita, NWT Tungsten, NWT Trout Lake, NWT Wah Ti, NWT Wekweti, NWT Whale Cove, Nunavut Wrigley, NWT Yellowknife, NWT |
Aklavik, NWT
Apex is a suburb of
Frobisher Bay (Iqaluit). The only record of scouting activities was in 1978
when the Apex scouting community requested the name change on the Northern
Interpreter badges from "I speak Eskimo" to "I speak
Inuktitut".
Arctic Bay, Nunavut
Arctic
Red River, NWT
Arviat, Nunavut
Baker Lake, Nunavut
Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
Cape Dorset, Nunavut
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut
Clyde River, NWT
Colville Lake, NWT
Coral Harbour, Nunavut
Deline, NWT
Detah, NWT
Discovery Townsite, NWT
Enterprise, NWT
Fort Franklin, NWT
Fort Good Hope, NWT
Fort Macpherson, NWT
Fort Norman, NWT
Fort Liard, NWT
Fort Providence, NWT
Fort Resolution, NWT
Fort Simpson, NWT
Fort Smith, NWT
Gjoa Haven, Nunavut
Grise Fiord, Nunavut
Hall Beach, Nunavut
Hay River, NWT
Holman Island, NWT
Igloolik, Nunavut
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Inuvik, NWT
Jean Marie River, NWT
Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Lake Harbour, Nunavut
Lutselk'e, NWT
Lynx River, NWT
Nahanni Butte, NWT
Nanisivik Mine, Nunavut
Ndilo, NWT
Norman Wells, NWT
Paulatuk, NWT
Pangnirtung, Nunavut
Pelly Bay, Nunavut
Pine Point, NWT
Pond Inlet, Nunavut
Port Radium, NWT
Frequently called "the iceberg capital of the North," Qikiqtarjuaq sits off the coast of Baffin Island some 96 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Qikiqtarjuaq (which just changed its name from Broughton Island in late 1998), means "big island" in Inuktitut, even though the island that the community calls home is only about 16 kilometres long and 12 kilometres wide. In 1955, construction began on a DEW Line site at Qikiqtarjuaq, attracting Inuit from Clyde River, Pangnirtung, Kivitoo and Padloping Island, who came to find employment. A Hudson's Bay Co. store was established three years later and by 1968, the federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development had relocated residents from Kivitoo and Padloping Island to Qikiqtarjuaq. On Aug. 31, 1979, Qikiqtarjuaq obtained hamlet status. The community has been actively involved in scouting activities since the 1970's.
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Qikiqtarjuaq Cub Oolana Nuqingaq designed their first Group badge in 1999. As the end of the Scouting year was fast approaching, with no sign of the new badges, the badge manufacturer was contacted. It was discovered that the badge design had been lost in the mail. After receiving a replacement copy of the badge design, a limited run of 50 printed badges was done up by the badge manufacturer and couriered out to Qikiqtarjuaq. The badges arrived the morning of the last meeting and the cubs were ecstatic to receive their first community Scout badge. The remainder of the order was sent to the Scout Shop in Yellowknife and consisted of the fully embroidered version. The community is now out of the printed badges and the embroidered badges are the current issue. In June 2001, 6 Cubs and 2 Leaders attended the 1st NWT and Nunavut Cuboree in Yellowknife. |  |
No known scouting activities, past or present.
Rae - Edzo, NWT
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
Repulse Bay, Nunavut
Resolute Bay, Nunavut
Rocher River, NWT
Sachs Harbour, NWT
Sankiluaq, Nunavut
Spence Bay, Nunavut
Tsiigehtchic, NWT
Tuktoyuktuk, NWT
Tungsten,
NWT
The town of Tungsten in the NWT is only accessible by air or by road through the Yukon. It was a small community serving as the residences for employees of the Canadian Tungsten Mining Corporation in it's Cantung Mine. Cantung was in production from 1962 to 1986 when depressed tungsten prices caused the mine's closure. Although the town closed along with the mine, caretakers were on site and the townsite was preserved with the view to it's eventual re-opening. Tungsten was part of the Great Slave Region and had registered members from 1978 - 1981 and 1985 - 1986.
The mine re-opened in 2001 under the ownership of American Tungsten Corp. Ltd. The townsite is still in existence, but it is unlikely to become a family oriented community and having any Scouting participation again due to it being a fly-in operation.
Trout Lake, NWT
Wah Ti, NWT
Wekweti, NWT
Whale Cove, Nunavut
Wrigley, NWT
Yellowknife, NWT