The Inuit and Northern experience : Expérience inuite et nordique

At the end of the 1960s, these schools were transferred from the federal government to the governments of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. [...] Finally, because Aboriginal people made up the majority of the population in two of the three northern territories, the per capita impact of the schools in the North is higher than anywhere else in the country. [...] For these reasons the intergenerational impacts and the legacy of the schools, both the good and the bad, are particularly strongly felt in the North. [...] For that reason, the second section of this report deals with the history of residential schooling in the North after 1950, which parallels the evolution of democratic governance in northern Canada, the historical redrawing of the map of Canada to create a new territory of Nunavut, and the essential participa- tion of many northern residential school Survivors in that evolution as they assumed imp [...] Finnie, the rst permanent federal government o ces in the Northwest Territories were established in Fort Smith, just north of the Alberta border.8 e Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 to 1918 was one of the government’s rst e orts to map the islands of the western Arctic and conduct a study of the Inuit.9 In 1922 the government began conducting annual patrols in the eastern Arctic, providing li