Angikuni Lake

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Angikuni Lake is one of several lakes located along the Kazan River in northern Canada’s Nunavut territory. Ennadai Lake is to the south and Yathkyed Lake is to the north. The lake’s shore is notable for rocky outcroppings of the Precambrian Shield, being part of the Hearne Domain, Western Churchill province of the Churchill craton.

Barren-ground caribou migrate through the area. The lake contains Lake trout, Northern Pike and Arctic grayling.

Farley Mowat

During his 1948 trip, Canadian explorer Farley Mowat arrived at Angikuni Lake and found a cairn, constructed in a fashion uncommon to area Inuit. It contained pieces of a hardwood box with dovetailed corners. Mowat, knowing that only one other European explorer, Samuel Hearne, had been in this region previously, but that was in 1770, speculated that the monument was built by Francis Crozier who vanished in 1848 during the ill-fate Northwest Passage Expedition, originally led by Sir John Franklin.(Woodman, 1991, pg.317)

Unsolved Mystery

In 1930, a newsman in The Pas, Manitoba reported on a small Inuit village right off of Lake Angikuni. The village always welcomed fur trappers that passed through now and then. But during the year 1930, a man that was well-known in the village came into the village only to find that everyone in the village was gone. He saw that the villagers left immediately because he found unfinished shirts that still had needles in them, and food hanging over fire pits. And even more disturbing was that he found seven sled dogs that were dead from starvation, and that a grave had been dug up. The fur trapper knew that an animal couldn't have done any of this because the stones that surrounded the grave in a circle hadn't been messed up in any way. The fur trapper reported this to the police but they never figured out what happened. The event is still considered "unsolved", though some believe the story to be a hoax because of inconsistencies.(Latta, 1991, pg.255)

References

* Latta, Jeffrey Blair. "The Franklin Conspiracy Cover-Up, Betrayal, and the Astonishing Secret Behind the Lost Arctic Expedition". Toronto: Hounslow Press, 2001. [http://books.google.com/books?id=7dYFpde7_Z8C&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=angikuni+lake+25+inuit&source=web&ots=HQKHJ1ORTn&sig=kRlfWN0ccpNR9ro2ObfB-ZqDh70 Excerpt from Google Books] ISBN 0888822340
* Woodman, David C. "Unravelling the Franklin Mystery Inuit Testimony". McGill-Queen's native and northern series, 5. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. [http://books.google.com/books?id=RbnvSlOc6twC&dq=crozier+mowat Excerpt from Google Books] ISBN 0773509364
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