Port Burwell is a harbour on western Killiniq Island, formed as an arm of Ungava Bay, at the mouth of Hudson Strait.[1][2] Previously within Labrador,[3] and then the Northwest Territories,[4] it is now situated within the borders of Nunavut, Canada. Cape Chidley is 25 miles (40 km) to the northeast. The community of Port Burwell lies on the shore at 60°25′30″N 64°50′00″W / 60.42500°N 64.83333°W[5].
History
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A Dominion Government Meteorological Station was established at Port Burwell during an 1884 voyage led by Commander Andrew R. Gordon, R.N., a retired Naval Officer, and assistant director of the Dominion Meteorological Service.[6] Gordon named it in honor of one of the expedition's meteorological observers, Herbert M. Burwell of London, Ontario.[7] Burwell was left in charge of Observing Station No. 1 in the port's harbour on the western side of Gray Strait until it closed in 1886.
Gordon returned to Port Burwell with a Hudson's Bay Company expedition in 1885 on the Alert,[8] and established an HBC trading post within the harbour.[9] In 1904, Moravian missionaries established a mission and trading post at the northwest corner of the harbour.[10] Twelve years later, the HBC moved one of their trading posts to the northeast area of the harbour.[10]
In the 1920s, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment was set up at Port Burwell. The Royal Corps of Signals (RCCS) built a radio station, and the Coast Guard built a base.[11]
The settlement of Killiniq grew around the port. In 1978, all the residents were re-settled from the deep port community[12] to host communities of Nunavik.
References
edit- ^ Robertson, Gordon (2000). Memoirs of a very civil servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau. University of Toronto Press. pp. 178. ISBN 0-8020-4445-X.
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- ^ Shelagh, Shelagh Grant (2005). Arctic Justice: On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 224. ISBN 0-7735-2929-2.
- ^ Brethren (1905), pp. 478
- ^ Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Parliament, House of Commons, Canada (1976). Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence: Procès-verbaux Et Témoignages (Digitized Sep 15, 2008 ed.). Queen's Printer. p. 1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Port Burwell (post)". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ^ de Trémaudan, Auguste Henri (1916). The Hudson Bay Road (1498-1915) (Digitized: Jul 10, 2008 ed.). Dutton. pp. 53.
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- ^ Report of the Hudson's Bay under the Command of Lieut. A. R. Gordon, R.N , 1884. Toronto: Meteorological Office. 1884.
- ^ "A Hudson's Bay Expedition" (PDF). The New York Times. May 21, 1885. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
- ^ Low, Albert Peter (1906). Report on the dominion government expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903-1904. Canada. Dept. of Marine and Fisheries (Digitized Aug 11, 2006 ed.). Govt. Print. Bureau. pp. 7.
port burwell trading post.
- ^ a b Gray, David H. (January 2005). "Grenfell and the Labrador Coast" (PDF). The Northern Mariner. XV (1). cnrs-scrn.org: 16.
- ^ "Port Burwell, Labrador Assorted Detail - 1920-1929". pinetreeline.org. Archived from the original on 2006-07-09. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
- ^ "4.7. Port Burwell". ualberta.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
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