Garry Lake

Infobox_lake
lake_name = Garry Lake ("Hanningajuq")
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location = Northern Canada
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inflow = Lake Pelly
outflow = Back River
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basin_countries = Canada
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width = Convert|2|mi|km|0|abbr=on—Convert|38|mi|km|0|abbr=on
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m to ft|152|abbr=yes|precision=0,
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islands = many
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Garry Lake (sometimes Garry Lakes) is located south of the Arctic Circle in Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. As a portion of the Back River waterway, Garry Lake originates directly east of Lake Pelly and drains to the east by the Back River. A set of rapids separate Buliard Lake (directly to the north) from Garry Lake. Two other sets of rapids separate Garry Lake's three sections (Upper Garry Lake, Garry Lake, Lower Garry Lake) which are also differentiated by elevation. [cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/74/G00874.html |title=Garry, Lake |publisher=bartleby.com |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite web |url=http://www.nunavutgeoscience.ca/apps/ref/showRprt.php?rId=&drNbr=081640&sId=066FNE0001 |title=Garry Lake Prospect; Garry Lake (Pan East Resources); Garry Lake Radioactive Boulder Train | [publisher=nunavutgeoscience.ca |accessdate-2008-03-09] cite web |url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=00000299&sl=6814&pos=1 |title=Tuhaalruuqtut Ancestral Sounds |publisher=Inuit Heritage Centre |year=2005 |accessdate=2008-03-10]

Garry Lakes are a part of the Churchill craton—Rae craton geological province. [cite web |url=http://www.nunavutgeoscience.ca/apps/ref/showRprt.php?rId=&drNbr=081640&sId=066FNE0001 |title=Garry Lake Prospect; Garry Lake (Pan East Resources); Garry Lake Radioactive Boulder Train | [publisher=nunavutgeoscience.ca |accessdate-2008-03-09] It is a low relief area including sedge/grass meadows along lake shores, and substrates of glacial silts, sands, and gravels. As moulting Canada Geese arrive in late summer, the Canadian Wildlife Service designated the area as a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site. Garry Lakes are isolated from nearby communities. [cite web |url=http://www.bsc-eoc.org/iba/site.jsp?siteID=NU089 |title=Middle Back River Southern Nunavut |publisher=bsc.eoc.org |accessdate=2008-03-14]

Inuit

"Hanningajuq", ("sideways", or "crooked"), is the Inuktitut word for both Garry Lake and the Christian cross. Garry Lake was historically home to Inuit who refer to themselves as "Hanningajurmiut" or "Hanningaruqmiut" or "Hanningajulinmiut" {meaning "the people of the place that lies across"}. Inuit to the north (the "Utkusiksalinmiut") refer to Garry Lake Inuit as "Ualininmiut" ("people from the area of which the sun follows east to west"). The Garry Lake Inuktitut dialect is related to "Utkuhiksalik", the dialect of the "Utkusiksalinmiut". Like other Caribou Inuit, Hanningajurmiut life consisted of tracking Arctic game (Beverly herd Barren-ground caribou) [cite journal |url=http://www.nwtwildlife.com/Publications/FileReports/FileReports/file59.htm |last=Duquette |first=L. |year=1985 |title=Beverly and Kaminuriak caribou monitoring and land use controls |pages=38 |accessdate=3008-03-14] and fishing (whitefish and lake trout). [cite journal |url=http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+10,+no.++4,+1957,*?COMMANDSEARCH |title=Arctic investigations by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1956-57 |last=Fisher |first=H.D. |journal=Arctic |volume=10 |number=4 |year=1957 |pages=244–245 |accessdate=2008-03-14] They lived in igloos in the winter months, and caribou skin tents in the summer months.

Between 1948-1955, Hanningajurmiut were able to trade at Kitikmeot fur trader Stephen Angulalik's outpost located at "Atanikittuq" ("little connection") at Sherman Inlet. [cite web |url=http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/anglinuk/sherman/sherman.htm |title=Sherman Inlet |publisher=Kitikmeot Heritage Society |accessdate=2008-03-13] A Roman Catholic mission post was established on an island in Garry Lake in 1949, staffed by Father Joseph Buliard, who disappeared in 1956. The cabin still stands in present day. [(Tester, 1994, p.240)] [cite journal |url=http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.11-books-Arctic-coast-explorer/ |title=Paddling Back in Time |first=A. |last=Pick |date=November 2007 |journal=The Arctic |accessdate=2008-03-10]

Suffering from famine in 1958 as the annual caribou migration bypassed their territorial hunting grounds, 58 Garry Lake inhabitants died. The federal government intervened by relocating the 31 survivors to Baker Lake. Most Hanningajurmiut never returned to Garry Lake on a permanent basis. [cite book |url=http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=1539 |title=Tammarniit (Mistakes), Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63 |first=F.J. |last=Tester |coauthors=Kulchyski, P. |publisher=ubcpress.ca |date=1994-01-01 |isbn=9780774804523 |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite web |url=http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?artists_id=98 |title=Hannah Kigusiuq |publisher=spiritwrestler.com |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite web |url=http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~inuit/UIDP/Historical%20Developments%20in%20Utku%20Phonology.pdf |last=Dyck |first=C.J. |coauthors=Briggs, J.L. |title=Historical developments in Utkuhiksalik phonology |date=2004-05-16 |publisher=utoronto.ca |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite web |url=http://mailhub.edu.nu.ca/kivalliq/BakerLake.html |title=Baker Lake, Nunavut | |publisher=edu.nu.ca |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8LvTuflgq0IC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=inuit+%22garry+lake%22&source=web&ots=ajeBcRynpf&sig=4vCyJvYicHQOgQpX3OgyelT5qiM&hl=en |pages=67 |title=Arctic revolution : social change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 |year=1994 |publisher=Dundurn Press |first=J.D. |last=Hamilton |location=Toronto |isbn=1550022067 |accessdate=2008-03-10]

Uranium

In 1981, Kidd Creek Minerals discovered 19 uraniferous boulders in a train formation, extending approximately 1.5 km along Garry Lake's north shore. In 2007, Uravan Minerals Inc. surveyed Garry Lake's uranium-rich area and made plans for a multi-phased drill program/exploration project for 2008. [cite news |url=http://www.uravanminerals.com/_resources/news_releases/PR_2007.11.28.pdf |title=Update-Garry Lake Uranium Property |date=2007-11-28 |publisher=uravanminerals.com |accessdate=2008-03-09] [cite news |url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2007/28/c5268.html|title=Uravan Minerals Inc. Update - Garry Lake Uranium Property |publisher=CNW Group |date=2007-11-28 |location=Calgary |accessdate=2008-03-10]

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