Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region (Inuktitut: "Qitirmiut" ᕿᑎᕐᒥᐅᑦ) is an administrative region of Nunavut. It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island. The regional seat is Cambridge Bay (population 1,477).

Before 1999, Kitikmeot Region existed under slightly different boundaries as Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories.

Regionalist movement

Bob Lyall President of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association has proposed the formation of a political party called the "Bloc Kitikmeot" to run in the next Nunavut general election. This is in response to the Government of Nunavut taking most of the infrastructure money and spending it in the Baffin Region. The new political party is advocating that the Kitikmeot Region separate from Nunavut and form its own territory.cite web|url=http://www.nunatsiaq.com/test/archives/2007/710/71026/news/nunavut/71026_635.html|title=What’s next? The new territory of Kitikmeot? | publisher = Nunatisaq News | date = October 26, 2007 | author = Jane George | accessdate=2007-10-27 ]

Communities

*Hamlets
**Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq)
**Gjoa Haven
**Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay)
**Kugluktuk (Coppermine)
**Taloyoak
*Other
**Bathurst Inlet
**Umingmaktuuq (Bay Chimo)
**Kitikmeot, Unorganized

Protected Areas

*Ovayok Territorial Park
*North West Passage Territorial Park
*Kuklok Territorial Park
*Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary1

Demographics

The Kitikmeot Region also doubles as one of three census divisions in Nunavut.

"Canada 2006 Census" [ [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/profiles/community/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CD&Code1=6208&Geo2=PR&Code2=62&Data=Count&SearchText=Kitikmeot&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&GeoLevel=&GeoCode=6208 2006 Canada Census] ]
*Population: 5,361
*Population change (2001-2006): +11.3%
*Private dwellings: 1,540
*Area: 446,727.70 km²
*Density: 0.012 / km²
*National rank in terms of population: 285^th out of 288
*Territorial rank in terms of population: 3^rd out of 3

ee also

*Kivalliq Region
*Qikiqtaaluk Region

References

Further reading

* Bromley, Robert Graham H., and Bruce D. McLean. " [ Raptor Surveys in the Kitikmeot and Baffin Regions, Northwest Territories, 1983 and 1984] ". Yellowknife, NWT: Dept. of Renewable Resources, Govt. of the Northwest Territories, 1986.
* Gunn, A. "Polar Bear Denning Surveys in the Kitikmeot Region, 1977-86". Coppermine, NWT: Dept. of Renewable Resources, Govt. of the Northwest Territories, 1991.
* Inuit Gallery of Vancouver. "Kitikmeot Land of the Spirits". Vancouver: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1991. ISBN 0969331568
* Kassam, K.-A. S. 2002. "Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou, by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok, and the Kitikmeot Elders". "Arctic". 55: 395.
* Kitikmeot Education Resource Centre. "Living and Teaching in the Kitikmeot Region". [Cambridge Bay, N.W.T.] : Kitikmeot Education Resource Centre, 1984.
* Kitikmeot Inuit Association. "Central Arctic Regional Land Claims Proposal for Social, Education Self-Determination". [Cambridge Bay, N.W.T.?] : Kitikmeot Inuit Association, 1979.
* Northwest Territories. "Economic Facts, Kitikmeot Region". [Yellowknife] : N.W.T. Dept. of Economic Development & Tourism, 1989.
* Northwest Territories. "Kitikmeot Health Care". [Yellowknife] : Northwest Territories Health, 1982.
* Sato, Riki. "The Directory of Community Groups, Inuvik and Kitikmeot Regions". Inuvik, N.W.T.: NOGAP Steering Committee, 1988.
* Todd, John. "North Slave Kitikmeot Mineral Development". Yellowknife, N.W.T.: Govt. of the N.W.T.] , 1993.
* West Kitikmeot Slave Study Society. "West Kitikmeot Slave study". Yellowknife: West Kitikmeot Slave Study Society, 2002.

External links

* [http://www.explorenunavut.com/kitikmeot.php Kitikmeot Region information at Explore Nunavut]