The main campus of Nunavut Arctic College is located here. There is also a museum, a visitors' centre, art galleries, several churches, a mosque, satellite communications and an up-to-date computer network. There is a small but vibrant francophone community with its own school and community centre. The Nunavut Final Agreement between the federal government and Inuit leaders was signed in , setting the direction for the creation of the new territory of Nunavut in Two years later, Iqaluit was chosen to be the territorial capital.
This brought rapid change: construction and employment opportunities boomed, with a corresponding population increase 47 per cent between and According to the census, The other two most commonly cited ethnic origins are Scottish Visible minorities account for 7. The local economy is still largely government based, but a private sector is developing in areas such as construction, retail, tourism, and arts and crafts.
Wages are relatively high compared with southern Canada, but equally so is the cost of living. However, employment levels among Inuit are still disproportionately low, a factor that government and Inuit organizations are working to reduce by offering training courses, preferential hiring and contract work.
As the administrative, transportation and communications centre for Nunavut, Iqaluit provides air links with southern Canada, Yellowknife and all Nunavut communities. It has a modern airport with daily flights to and from the South. In summer, despite its high tides, the city also becomes a port, handling the annual sealift of heavy supplies. Rapid growth of the city has seen the advent of more vehicles and the start of southern-style trappings such as street names and public transit.
The city is also home to CBC North radio and television, delivered in English and Inuktitut, as well as local radio stations and weekly newspapers. Its municipal administration consists of a mayor and eight councillors elected citywide for a four-year term. It provides the usual community services and faces the same municipal issues that confront most other Canadian local administrations. What makes it different is that it serves a diverse mix of citizens who have moved there from others parts of Nunavut and Canada, while trying to preserve a balance between Inuit traditions and more recent changes brought from the South.
By northern standards, the city is a hub of political activity. As the capital, it houses the territorial legislative assembly, all government departments and is the home for many Inuit birthright organizations. For these reasons, it is the linchpin of the three Nunavut regions of Qikiqtaaluk Baffin , Kivalliq and Kitikmeot. The small satellite community of Apex is five kilometres east of Iqaluit. Nestled around an old-style Hudson's Bay Company store, it came into being in the s as a model village for the Inuit, built by the Canadian government.
Much of the flavour of Iqaluit lies in its cross-cultural contrasts: Inuktitut, English and French are heard in daily use; men in caribou parkas go hunting while jet planes fly overhead; and sealskins are scraped and cleaned in homes that house a television and perhaps a computer. Bird species including ravens, ptarmigans, snow buntings, sea gulls Arctic hare Lemmings Arctic fox. This area averages 16 hours of daylight throughout the summer with nearly 24 hours of sunshine in late June and early July.
Iqaluit is the dynamic capital city of Nunavut. Is the largest and fastest-growing community in the territory, and 60 per cent of inhabitants are Inuit. Eroding marshes at the coast near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Canada. Inuit child carrying her doll like her mother with her child on the back, Clyde River, Nunavut Canada. Inuit child jumping on ice, Pont Inlet, Canada.
Inuit child playing with his self-built toy, a mini-scooter transporting seal meat, Pond Inlet, Canada. Inuit children playing with self-built toys, mini-scooters transporting seal meat, Pond Inlet, Canada. Inuit elder, Clyde River, Nunavut Canada. Inuit family on weekend tour including seal hunting, Pond Inlet, Canada.
Inuit hunter captures a ring seal, Pond Inlet, Canada. Inuit hunter feeds his child with still warm meat from just hunted ring seal, Pond Inlet, Canada.
Inuit hunter traveling by snow scooter on melting sea ice, Pond Inlet, Canada. Inuit woman carrying her child, Clyde River, Nunavut Canada. Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. Northern Studies Centre at Churchill, Canada.
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