{{Short description|Abandoned settlement in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Umingmaktok | native_name = Umingmaktuuq | settlement_type = Settlement | image_skyline = Bay Chimo.jpg | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut |coordinates = {{coord|67|41|45|N|107|56|45|W|region:CA-NU_type:city_scale:20000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OARFR|Umingmaktok}}</ref>|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Territory]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Nunavut]] | subdivision_type2 = [[List of regions of Nunavut|Region]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Kitikmeot Region|Kitikmeot]] | subdivision_type3 = [[List of Nunavut territorial electoral districts|Electoral district]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Cambridge Bay (electoral district)|Cambridge Bay]] | established_title = | established_date = | government_footnotes = <ref>[http://www.nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/dec10_08electnunavut.html Hamlets elect new councils] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213193638/http://www.nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/dec10_08electnunavut.html |date=2009-02-13 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.elections.nu.ca/apps/Elections/dspResults.aspx?election=1 Election Results - 2008 General Election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227151431/http://www.elections.nu.ca/apps/Elections/dspResults.aspx?election=1 |date=2008-12-27 }}</ref> | leader_title = [[Legislative Assembly of Nunavut|MLA]] | leader_name = [[Fred Pedersen]] | area_footnotes = <ref name=2021census/> | area_total_km2 = 99.95 | elevation_footnotes = (2021)<ref>Elevation at airport. {{CFS}}</ref> | elevation_m = 0 | population_footnotes =<ref name=2021census/> | population_total = 0 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_density_km2 = auto | timezone = [[Mountain Time Zone|MST]] | utc_offset = −07:00 | timezone_DST = MDT | utc_offset_DST = −06:00 | postal_code_type = [[Canadian Postal code]] | postal_code = [[List of X postal codes of Canada|X0B 2A0]] | area_code = | website = }} '''Umingmaktok''' ([[Inuinnaqtun]]: ''Umingmaktuuq''{{efn|[[Inuinnaqtun]] is written with the [[Latin alphabet]]. In communities which speak this language, [[Inuktitut syllabics]] are mainly used by the [[Government of Nunavut]].}} "like a musk ox", or "he or she caught a [[muskox]]") is a [[ghost town]] on [[Bathurst Inlet]] in the [[Kitikmeot Region|Kitikmeot]] of the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian territory]] of [[Nunavut]]. The community was previously known as '''Bay Chimo'''.
The area around Umingmaktuuq is said to be rich in wildlife such as the [[Arctic fox]], [[fur seal]]s, [[barren-ground caribou]], [[Arctic char]] and [[muskox]].
With less than two dozen residents, Umingmaktuuq was one of the smallest permanent non-military communities in Nunavut. At one time,{{Until when|date=November 2022}} the community had a school that provided education up to Grade 6. Later, any students were flown to [[Cambridge Bay]] and returned to the community only for the summer and Christmas.
The community had no electricity other than that provided by portable generators, and communication with the outside world was by [[satellite phone]]. The only access to the community was by chartered aircraft, and the landing strip divided Umingmaktuuq in half. On one side was the old [[Hudson's Bay Company]] buildings and the Co-op store, and on the other was the main residential area.
==History== In 1920, [[Christian Klengenberg]] over-wintered in Bathurst Inlet to trap fox for the fur trade. At that time, [[Copper Inuit]] who still lived a traditional lifestyle settled at Umingmaktok seasonally in the winter.<ref name="Oakes">{{cite book |last1=Oakes |first1=Jill Elizabeth |title=Copper and Caribou Inuit skin clothing production |date=1 January 1991 |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |isbn=978-1-77282-282-3 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Copper_and_Caribou_Inuit_skin_clothing_p/Epb2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1964, the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] (HBC) relocated its post from [[Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut|Bathurst Inlet]] to Umingmaktok (but was still called the Bathurst Inlet post). It closed in 1970.<ref name=HBC>{{cite web |title=Hudson's Bay Company: Bathurst Inlet |url=https://pam.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PAM_AUTHORITY/AUTH_DESC_DET_REP/SISN%202076?sessionsearch |website=pam.minisisinc.com |publisher=Archives of Manitoba - Keystone Archives Descriptive Database |access-date=2025-01-28}}</ref>
In 1986, Umingmaktok was still permanently inhabited and had a general store, one-room school house (with kindergarten to grade 3 - higher grades were taught by correspondence), and about 12 single-room homes built in the 1960s. Supplies would be brought in from Cambridge Bay by barge or by snowmobile in the winter. Medical services were provided 3 times per year, while police would come from the Cambridge Bay [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] detachment only as needed.<ref name="Oakes"/>
== Demographics == [[File:Bay Chimo 2.jpg|thumb|Umingmaktok 20 June 1999]] In the [[2021 Canadian census]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Umingmaktok had a population of 0, no change from its 2016 population. With a land area of {{cvt|99.95|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|0|99.95|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000262 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Nunavut | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=February 19, 2022}}</ref>
{{Historical populations | title = Federal census population history of Umingmaktok | type = Canada | align = none | cols = 2 | percentages = |[[1976 Canadian census|1976]]|39 |[[1981 Canadian census|1981]]|60 |[[1986 Canadian census|1986]]|61 |[[1991 Canadian census|1991]]|56 |[[1996 Canadian census|1996]]|51 |[[2001 Canadian census|2001]]|5 |[[2006 Canadian census|2006]]|0 |[[2011 Canadian census|2011]]|5 |[[2016 Canadian census|2016]]|0 |[[2021 Canadian census|2021]]|0 | footnote = | source = [[Statistics Canada]]<br/><ref name=1981census>{{cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS94-905-1981.pdf | title=1981 Census of Canada: Census subdivisions in decreasing population order | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=May 1992 | accessdate=February 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name=1986census>{{cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/statcan/rh-hc/CS92-101-1987.pdf | title=1986 Census: Population - Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=September 1987 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=1991census>{{cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/statcan/rh-hc/CS93-304-1992.pdf | title=91 Census: Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions - Population and Dwelling Counts | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=April 1992 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=1996census>{{cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/statcan/rh-hc/CS93-357-1997.pdf | title=96 Census: A National Overview - Population and Dwelling Counts | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=April 1997 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=2001census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-P.cfm?T=1&SR=1&S=1&O=A&PR=62 | title=Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, and Census Subdivisions (Municipalities), 2001 and 1996 Censuses - 100% Data (Nunavut) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=August 15, 2012 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=2006census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/hlt/97-550/Index.cfm?TPL=P1C&Page=RETR&LANG=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=1&O=A&RPP=9999&CMA=0&PR=62 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2006 and 2001 censuses - 100% data (Nunavut) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=August 20, 2021 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=2011census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=51&O=A&RPP=9999&CMA=0&PR=62 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2011 and 2006 censuses (Nunavut) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=July 25, 2021 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=2016census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table.cfm?Lang=Eng&T=302&SR=1&S=86&O=A&RPP=9999&PR=62 | title=Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Nunavut) | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 8, 2017 | accessdate=February 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name=2021census/> }}
==See also== *[[List of communities in Nunavut]]
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist }} *[http://npc.nunavut.ca/eng/regions/westkit/getplan/WKRLUP_ENG_SC_CH3.pdf Regional Analysis of the West Kitikmeot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051016003545/http://npc.nunavut.ca/eng/regions/westkit/getplan/WKRLUP_ENG_SC_CH3.pdf |date=2005-10-16 }} *Nunavut Handbook - Joe Otokiak *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070402114720/http://langcom.nu.ca/languages/dialectmap-web.pdf Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut - PDF Dialect Map] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050913094905/http://langcom.nu.ca/languages/en_writing.html Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut - Writing systems]
==Further reading== {{Refbegin}} * Lee, John. ''Wolverine Harvest and Carcass Collection Coppermine, Bay Chimo and Bathurst Inlet, 1992/93''. Yellowknife, NWT: Dept. of Renewable Resources, Govt. of Northwest Territories, 1994. {{Refend}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20170319021514/http://www.polarnet.ca/reports/baychimo.htm E-mail in Bay Chimo]
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