Kugaaruk

Kugaaruk (formerly Pelly Bay, also traditionally called by the Inuit Arviligjuak, " place with lots of Greenland whales " ), territory of Nunavut, a community on the Canadian mainland at the mouth of Kuggarjuk River in the Pelly Bay village with about 660 inhabitants (of which 94 % Inuit ).

The first known contact between the people living in this region Inuit and Europeans resulted in 1829 when John Ross during his expedition to the Northwest Passage wintered here. In contrast, prevented, in the region to take action and the Hudson 's Bay Company here in the 19th century prevailing extreme ice conditions both as whalers.

Relatively late, in 1935, was the first missionary of the Roman Catholic Father Pierre Henry the Order of the Oblates here and initially built a small, habitable stone chapel, but quickly proved to be unsuitable for living in the harsh Arctic climate conditions. The mission station, which was now in Pelly Bay, became famous for her from locally occurring stones and seal oil mixed clay mortar designed seven buildings, 2 of which are still preserved, including built in 1941, provided with wooden interiors stone church of 40 square meters. Oblate Fathers, a Catholic mission station established in 1937, were followed until the opening of the first public school in 1962, the only living here non- Inuit.

The " Arviligjuarmiut " as the round-the- Pelly Bay was still semi-nomadic living Inuit refer to themselves, remained until 1955, in which the establishment of the DEW Line ( Distant Early Warning, Early Warning System ) began with virtually no contact with the outside world, and in the following years, many characteristics of the original Inuit culture have well preserved, are also of interest for tourists. At the Pelly Bay and the major documentary, distributed by the Canadian National Film Board film about the Netsilik Eskimos was filmed, are shown to frequently cut-outs in recent German television documentaries.

1968 is considered the founding year for the settlement of Pelly Bay. In that year, the Canadian government had placed prefabricated wooden houses for the Arviligjuarmiut 32 in the south. 1999 Pelly Bay was renamed in Kugaaruk (after the place by flowing Kuggarjuk River).