Talk:Pond Inlet

Big text == "the cost of food ... can be much higher than that of southern Canada" ==

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The examples are not helpful to those of us that don't know the then current prices of these products in southern Canada! Also, the should be explicitly in Canadian dollars: relying on the link is not clear enough. --Ant 16:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ant, just think about all of what you buy on a weekly basis, at regular costs, then mulitply it 2 or 3 times. You may not think twice when you buy 4 apples for a dollar, but when you come up here, think about spending 6 dollars on 4 apples. milk is usual about 6 to 8 dollars for two, yes 2 litres.

does that help?

I think what they are talking about is a source being needed for this fact: since 2007 (when this post was started) there have been a lot of articles posted in Canadian newspapers about Inuit activism concerning high food prices at Northmart. If anyone is interested in expanding that part of the article, there is a lot more source information to go by. Sphecidae (talk) 01:43, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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History?
What would be a good way to approach people about helping to contribute to a 'history' section on this article? I noticed there really isn't much information on the traditional history of Pond Inlet: namely, who is Mitima, the town's Inuktitut namesake? I saw one or two people from Pond Inlet in a Facebook group I frequent but I am unsure if they would know, or, if they knew, whether the knowledge they could share would have any written source. Hopefully there is someone with a bit more experience in this than me: thanks in advance. Sphecidae (talk) 01:40, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Content from Arctic Cordillera article
Some of the content in this article is from the Arctic Cordillera article. The content will be revised as more precise RS are found.Oceanflynn (talk) 18:04, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Content added to Mary River Mine article
I added several edits to the Mary River Mine article that I added to the this article.Oceanflynn (talk) 00:44, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Inuit Name Origin
There seems to be a conflicting source here for what Mittimatalik translates to. This Government of Nunavut document seems to suggest it translates to "the place where Mittima is buried". https://www.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/files/Pond%20Inlet%20new%20layout.pdf --70.74.145.227 (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, this is correct -- the article's account of the name is in error. See also Kenn Harper's Taissumani article from March 7 2011.[] -- Clevelander96 (talk) Clevelander96 (talk) 00:43, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Panarctic's Nanisivik coal mine
I removed the following section which was under the section header Panarctic's Nanisivik coal mine

"In 1970, the federal government began the six-year long planning process for the Strathcona Sound mining project on the northern tip of Baffin Island. This resulted in the opening of the Panarctic's Nanisivik coal mine which operated from 1976 until 2002. Researchers investigated the 1970-1976 planning process behind the Strathcona Sound mining project on the northern tip of Baffin Island. Panarctic's Nanisivik mine operated from 1976 until 2002. The 2013 article said that the federal government and the Inuit themselves had different ideas of "what was good for them". To the federal government, Inuit were perceived as "labour in need of employment" and Inuit resisted this definition. A September 1974 editorial in the Pond Inlet community newsletter, questioned "Why has so little been told to the people of Pond Inlet concerning a mine that might affect their lives for the next thirteen years? Why have we not been informed of both sides of the picture?" The people of the other north Baffin Island communities affected by the Strathcona Sound mining project had been almost entirely excluded from discussions about the project. When Department of Indian and Northern Affairs representatives arrived on a January/February tour to "collect labour availability data" they had shared very little about the project with local communities. In 1974, Pond Inlet hamlet had "refused to deal with the DIAND representatives because of the inadequacy of the information provided." In his 1973 Arctic Institute of North America article, Eric Gourdeau, discussed the social impact that Panarctic's wages had on Pond Inlet and Arctic Bay—Panarctic wages had "more than doubled the cash income gained by the regular wage workers in each community.""

There are multiple problems with the section. First Panarctic Oils, as the name suggest, was in the petroleum business and not coal mining. Other than the Fosheim Property near Eureka, Nunavut I don't know of any coal mines up here. There may be some confusion with Petro-Canada here as they did hold a stake in Panarctic around 1976 or so. Second, while Nanisivik Mine existed it was a zinc, lead mine and not coal. Third, the Nanisivik Mine was not operated by Panarctic or Petro-Canada. While I haven't read The Strathcona Sound mining project: a case study of decision making. used as a source I can see the abstract here. It mentions a "lead-zinc mine" located "about 27 km (17 miles) from the predominantly Inuit village of Arctic Bay." which makes it the Nanisivik Mine. I don't know if someone can sort this out but there is a problem with the way it's presented. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 01:41, 2 January 2023 (UTC)