National Parks and National Historic Sites of Canada in Nunavut

National Historic Sites of Nunavut

There are eleven National Historic Sites within Nunavut. Parks Canada does not directly manage any of these Sites. The National Historic Sites in Nunavut are:

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• Arvia’juaq and Qikiqtaarjuk, Arviat: Inuit summer occupation sites with rich history and in-situ resources (designated 1995);
  
• Fall Caribou Crossing, Kazan River, Baker Lake: fall caribou hunting site of critical importance to the historical survival of the inland Inuit, (designated 1995); managed by the Hamlet of Baker Lake;
• Blacklead Island Whaling Station, Blacklead Island: Aboriginal and European bowhead whaling (designated 1985);
• Beechey Island Sites, Related to 19th-century Arctic exploration (designated 1993); Cairns, Devon Island Site at Cape Riley, Franklin Wintering Site, Northumberland House, Wreck of H.M.S. Breadalbane (Beechey Island);

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• Bloody Falls, near Kugluktuk: Pre-contact hunting and fishing sites (designated 1978);
• Igloolik Island Archaeological Sites, Igloolik Island: Archaeological sequence, 2000 BC – AD 1000 (designated 1978);
• Inuksuk, Enusko Point: Inuit complex of 100 stone landmarks (designated 1969, plaqued 1984);
• Kekerten Island Whaling Station, Kekerten Island: Aboriginal and European bowhead whaling (designated 1985);
• Kodlunarn Island: Martin Frobisher habitation and iron smelting, 1576-78 (designated 1964);
• Port Refuge, Devon Island: Pre-contact occupations, trade with Norse colonies (designated 1978); Erebus and Terror (* exact location unknown), Undetermined: Ships of Franklin’s last expedition, 1845 (designated 1992).

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