Project Naming

photo collections

• Photographs from the North: Library and Archives Canada Collections
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Geraldine Moodie photographs taken during the 1904-1905 Hudson Bay Expedition
• Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
• National Film Board of Canada
• Department of National Health and Welfare
• Private Collections

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Established in 1873, the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) was the predecessor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Fearing that the United States was planning to annex Canadian Arctic territories, the NWMP established detachments in the Far North. The first post was built in 1903 at Fullerton, north of Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) on the Hudson Bay coast. The photographs taken at Fullerton depict various aspects of Inuit life in the early 20th century.

Unidentified couple
Fullerton, 1904-1905
C-089343
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Memogana, an interpreter for the RCMP
[Fullerton]
circa 1904-1905
e006580930
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Vital statistics notice written in syllabics
[Fullerton]
circa 1904-1905
e006580941
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