Project Summary

The Kitikmeot Heritage Society (KHS) will create an interactive web site designed to provide students, community members and people around the world with a rich and accurate source of research on the Copper Inuit. The first module of the site will be a history of fur trader Angulaalik (Stephen Angulalik), highlighting his life’s work with the Hudson’s Bay Company, Canalaska Trading Company and as the first Inuit free trader. This module of our web site will link to the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre’s web site on the fur trade in the Western Arctic. The site will also be a piece of a much larger, circumpolar web site – the Arctic Circumpolar Route.¹

Project Goal

• To develop a large and in depth web site which will allow the KHS to share its rich and extensive collection of materials and research collected over the past 12 years.
• To provide students and the general public with Inuinnaqtun language resources and accurate historical research, traditional knowledge and oral histories.

Project Objectives

1. Using existing published and unpublished historical and ethnographic materials, as well as transcripts, audio and video recordings and photographs in the collections, to research, write and design a web site on Stephen Angulalik and his life as a fur trader. The material will be used to produce two streams of information:
   • one stream which will contain educational materials for use in schools; and
   • the second stream will provide a rich source of historical information and research materials for researchers and the general public.
2. To provide our community with a way to present and disseminate local research collected by Iqaluktuuttiarmiut and presented by Iqaluktuuttiarmiut and in a way that is sensitive to the culture and values of the community.
3. To ensure that our research and that of others does not remain hidden in the backroom collections of museums and archives.
4. To develop a bilingual site that students and the public can use to develop their Inuinnaqtun language skills.

The Angulaalik module will be a part of a much larger web development project which will, when completed, provide students and the public with an in depth look at the culture, language and traditions of the Copper Inuit and their ancestors. The Angulaalik module will be linked to the Lessons from the Land web exhibit on the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) web site. Both sites will be linked together by the Arctic Circumpolar Route web site, a UNESCO² sponsored project. This will ensure that our web site will have broad, national and international exposure.

1. The Arctic Circumpolar Route (ACR) is a Participation Project with UNESCO, which also sponsors similar World Heritage Routes that have served as conduits for the exchange of knowledge, goods and cultures among nations and peoples, such as the Silk and Spice Route. The Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary is launching the project, lending the expertise and support of its multidisciplinary staff. See appendix F.
2. United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization