Dundas Harbour

{{Short description|Ghost town on Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Dundas Harbour | other_name = Talluruti | settlement_type = Ghost town | image_map = {{Location map many | Canada Nunavut | width = 270 | float = right | label = Dundas Harbour | marksize = 8 | coordinates = {{coord|74|33|N|82|23|W}} | position = left }} | coordinates = {{coord|74|32|N|82|23|W|type:landmark_scale:50000_region:CA-NU|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAERW|Dundas Harbour}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Dundas Harbour}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Territory]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Nunavut]] | established_title = Founded | established_date = August 1924 | extinct_title = Abandoned | extinct_date = 1951 | population_total = 0 }}

'''Dundas Harbour''' ([[Inuktitut]]: '''''Talluruti''''', "a woman's chin with tattoos on it"<ref>[http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_dec._11/ The Canadian Northwest Passage?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222043639/http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/taissumani_dec._11/ |date=2012-02-22 }} Taissumani. [[Nunatsiaq News]] 2009-12-17 [[Kenn Harper]]</ref>) is an abandoned settlement in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located on [[Devon Island]] at the eastern shore of the waterway also named Dundas Harbour ({{coord|74|33|N|82|30|W|type:landmark_scale:50000_region:CA-NU|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAERV|Dundas Harbour (bay)}}</ref>|name=Dundas Harbour (bay)}}). [[Baffin Bay]]'s [[Croker Bay]] is immediately to the west and [[Parry Channel]] to the south.

An outpost was established at the harbour in August 1924 as part of a government presence intended to curb foreign [[whaling]] and other activities. The [[Hudson's Bay Company]] leased the outpost in 1933. The following year, 52 [[Inuit]] were relocated from [[Kinngait]] (then called Cape Dorset) to Dundas Harbour but they returned to the mainland 13 years later.<ref name="Alia">{{cite book|last=Alia|first=Valerie |title=Names and Nunavut: culture and identity in Arctic Canada |publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2007 |series=Berghahn Series|pages=52|isbn=978-1-84545-165-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r0CUU3ZKMpkC&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA52}}</ref>

Dundas Harbour was populated again in the late 1940s to maintain a patrol presence, but it was closed again in 1951 due to ice difficulties. The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] detachment<ref name="Grant">{{cite book|last=Grant|first=Shelagh |title=Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press|year=2005 |series=McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series|pages=340|isbn=0-7735-2929-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FrkJetCi3nYC&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA334}}</ref> was moved to [[Craig Harbour]] on southern [[Ellesmere Island]].<ref name="Tammarniit ">{{cite book|last=Tester|first=Frank J.|author2=Peter Keith Kulchyski|title=Tammarniit (mistakes): Inuit relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63|publisher=UBC Press|year=1994 |pages=122|isbn=0-7748-0452-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVf9N3jdsp4C&q=%22Dundas+harbour%22+nunavut&pg=PA415}}</ref>

Only the ruins of a few buildings remain, along with one of the northernmost cemeteries in Canada.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/rcmp-military-honour-early-northern-officers-1.576110 RCMP, military honour early northern officers]</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> Polar bear eating a beluga whale, Dundas Harbor, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada, September 2019.jpg|Polar bear eating a beluga whale in Dundas Harbor Johnson Bay Settlement Dundas Harbour Qikiqtaaluk Nunuvut Canada.jpg|Abandoned settlement in Johnson Bay, Dundas Harbour (from near the cemetery) Johnson Bay Cemetery Dundas Harbour Qikiqtaaluk Nunuvut Canada.jpg|Johnson Bay Cemetery, Dundas Harbour sits above the abandoned settlement. It contains the graves of two RCMP members. </gallery>

==See also== * [[List of communities in Nunavut]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Ghost towns in Nunavut]] [[Category:Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut]] [[Category:Ports and harbours of Nunavut]] [[Category:Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region]] [[Category:Devon Island]]