Ulukhaktok

The first settlers came to this place and settled here in 1937. Two years later, the Hudson's Bay Company moved a trading post from Walker Bay. At the same time, a Catholic mission was founded here.

The settlement was named Holman in honor of J. R. Holman, a member of the expedition of Edward August Ingfield in 1853, aimed at finding the polar explorer John Franklin ^[1] . In 2006, the village was renamed Ulukhaktok, which means "a place where you can find parts of the ulu " or "a large cliff, where we collected raw materials for the manufacture of ulu." In fact, the large cliff facing the settlement has traditionally been a source of natural slate and copper, which are used to make ulu knives. Ulukhaktok is a recent word, since there has never been a permanent settlement on this site until the founding of the Hudson's Bay trading post. However, people visited this place and set up a temporary camp here to get the necessary raw materials.

The village is located on the west coast of Victoria Island.

According to the 2011 census, the population of the village is 402 people ^[2] . 90.0% of the population are Inuit ; 7.5% are non-indigenous peoples of Canada and 2.5% are Indians ^[3] . The main languages ​​of the population are the Kangiryarmiutun dialect of the Inuvialuktun language and English . The Government of the Northwest Territories declares a population of 471 people for 2012; the average annual population growth is 1.5% (for the period since 2001) ^[4] .

The main economic activities of the population are hunting and fishing.