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This map shows the location of the 28 Nunavut communities. The communities are widely scattered and at a considerable distance from
each other. Travel between them is usually by air. In fact, there is only
one highway-type road in the territory - it connects the mining community
of Nanisivik to Arctic Bay. However, each community has a harbour and
an airport. (For more details, see the transportation maps.)
To get information on a particular community, first click on the
zoom-in button and then, on the map-face, click on the area of the
map that you wish to see in more detail. When this has been done,
the names of the communities appear. If you then click on the "get
statistics" button, followed by a click on a community town
stamp, you will get further information about the community.
The names indicated on the map are the official names accepted
by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. Some communities also
have local names in Inuktitut. These names are indicated under the
field, local name, with the box to their right giving the meaning
of the Inuktitut name. In cases where place names have been changed
recently, the old name is also indicated.
The database, accessible through the get statistics button, also
contains demographic data. The fields Pop91 and Pop96 give the population
of each of the places in the 1991 and 1996 Canadian censuses. Pop94
gives the data obtained by the 1994 Labour Force Survey made by
the Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics. Furthermore, when
clicking on the entry in the field, Statistics, you will be linked
to the Statistics Canada Community Profiles Web site. Once there,
click on the community to get additional information on the population.
The information in the field, Snapshot, refers to material from Nunavut
schoolchildren. They were asked to talk about their communities and give
their thoughts on the new territory. All schools in Nunavut were invited
to participate in this project. The students were asked three questions:
- What does the new territory of Nunavut mean to you ?
- Can you describe your community ?
- In ten years from now what will your community look like ?
The schools in Gjoa Haven and Kugluktuk have also contributed to the
Canadian Communities Atlas, a project for which all Canadian schools are
invited to participate. If you click on either of these places and on
the Comm_Atlas field in the identify feature, you will be linked to an
atlas made by students of these communities.
Refer to References and Links to get further data on the Nunavut
population, provided by the Web sites of Statistics Canada and the
Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics.
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