Taloyoak

Taloyoak (formerly Spence Bay), Nunavut, Kitikmeot Region, geographically located on the southern border of the Boothia Peninsula, is the northernmost mainland settlement in Canada with approximately 809 inhabitants (of which 91 % Inuit ). Your Name is caused by a corruption of the Inuktitut word Talurqjuaq, " coverage for the caribou ." The residents of the neighborhood Natsilik - Inuit or Natsilingmiut call themselves by the name of Seal ( Natsiq ).

Distance (air line) of Yellowknife is 1224 km, 460 km from Cambridge Bay. The temperature is in July from 3.2 to 11.5 ° C in January from -39.5 to -29.7 ° C.

The neighborhood was visited by John Ross for the first time in 1829 and 1833. 1848 and 1860 were Europeans and Americans again - this time in search of the lost expedition corps of John Franklin.

The foundation of the church Taloyok began in 1948 when the Hudson's Bay Company trading post at Fort Ross its castle, the 250 kilometers to lay on the south coast of Iceland in the North Somerset and newly built in Stanners Harbour on the Spence Bay. A little later came a police station, and in the early 1950s was followed by a Roman Catholic and an Anglican mission station. The change of place name Spence Bay in Taloyoak on July 1, 1992.