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• A journey into Inuit Traditional Knowledge
• Winds of Change
• North meets South
  • Inuit Recollections on the Military Presence in Iqaluit
    • THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II
    • The Crystal II Weather Station and the founding of Frobisher Bay
    • The American weather stations; memories of Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) and Clyde River
    • The first military site at Frobisher Bay: “Lower Base”
    • The Pinetree Radar Station site: “Upper Base”
    • The Hudson’s Bay Company post
    • Living near an air base: relations with the soldiers
    • The Inuit village: “Old Iqaluit”
    • The African-American soldiers
    • Employment at the military base
    • CRAVING FOR COUNTRY FOOD
    • Work at the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line Sites: Some Memories
    • Apex Hill, the government and the end of an era
• Development of Government Services in the Arctic
• The Creation of Nunavut

The first military site at Frobisher Bay: “Lower Base”