Kugluktuk

The settlement Kugluktuk ( "place of the rapids ", formerly known as Coppermine ) is located on the northern Canadian mainland between the sand banks of the mighty Coppermine River and the shores of Coronation Gulf and the most westerly community of the territory of Nunavut ( when naming Kugluktuk is a mutilation occurred, and the original Inuktitut name is Qurluqtuq what " two startled people " means ).

As the first Europeans in 1771 Samuel Hearne came on behalf of the Hudson 's Bay Company on overland expeditions from Fort Prince of Wales at Churchill on the Arctic Ocean in order here to search for copper. He founded in 1771 Coppermine as a mining settlement. 1865 fell 30 % in the area are home to the Inuit a flu epidemic victims. In 1918, first Roman Catholic missionaries were followed by Anglican missionaries in 1928, after 1927, the Hudson's Bay Company had established a trading post. 1932 police station was built. Later, a weather station, a radio station, a hospital and a school arose.

In 2007, Kugluktuk went through the international press, because the population had pronounced at a local referendum with more than 60 % for severely restrict the sale of alcohol. The vote was preceded by protests by local youth against the widespread alcohol abuse.

Scheduled flight ( First Air Ltd. ) Is to Yellowknife.