Edmund Peck

Edmund James Peck (April 15, 1850 – September 10, 1924), known in as Inuktitut as Uqammaq (one who talks well),^[1] was an Anglican missionary in Canada. He is most notable for his work in developing Inuktitut syllabics, derived from the Cree syllabary and for writing the first substantial English-Inuktitut dictionary.

In 1894 the whaling station on Blacklead Island was purchased by Mr. C. Noble and offered to Peck as an Anglican mission. Peck made several trips to England and southern Canada over the years but always returned to the mission, until he finally left in 1902.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Apostle to the Inuit: The Journals and Ethnographic Notes of Edmund James Peck, The Baffin Years, 1894-1905, edited by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten and François Trudel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. ISBN 9780802090423
^ Edmund Peck (Uqammaq), 1850-1924
^ The Life and Work of E.J. Peck Among the Eskimos by the Rev. Arthur Lewis, M.A.

External links

The Life and Work of E.J. Peck among the Eskimos, by Arthur Lewis, from Project Canterbury

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Name	Peck, Edmund
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Date of birth	April 15, 1850
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Date of death	September 10, 1924
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