Baillie Island

Baillie Island
Location in the Northwest Territories

Baillie Island (Inuit: Utkraluk)[1] is located off the north coast of Cape Bathurst in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The island formed part of the area used by the Avvaqmiut who are a branch of the Mackenzie Inuit.[2]

History

The first European to discover the island was John Richardson in 1826, who also named it.[3] It was again visited by Richardson and John Rae, while searching the Northwest Passage for Franklin's lost expedition.[2] In 1915, the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post on the island. While the post was being set up, it was visited by competing trader Christian Theodore Pedersen.[4] By the 1920s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had established a detachment on the island.[5] It was at Baillie Island, in 1928, after returning from Cambridge Bay that Inspector Kemp, the Commanding Officer for the Western Arctic, appointed Henry Larsen captain of the St. Roch.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Archaeology of the Western Arctic Coast
  3. ↑ Franklin, John (1828). Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar sea in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827, by John Franklin,... including an account of the progress of a detachment to the Eastward, by John Richardson. London: J. Murray.
  4. ↑ Hudson's Bay Company at the Kitikmeot Heritage Society
  5. ↑ Christian Klengenberg - More Suspicions
  6. ↑ Dangerous Passage: Issues in the Arctic ISBN 978-1-897045-13-8

Coordinates: 70°35′N 128°10′W / 70.583°N 128.167°W