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Dundas Harbour was populated again in the late 1940s to maintain a patrol presence, but it was closed again in 1951 due to ice difficulties. The
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Johnson Bay Cemetery, Dundas Harbour sits above the abandoned settlement. It contains the graves of two RCMP members.
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An outpost was established at the harbour in August 1924 as part of a government presence intended to curb foreign
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Only the ruins of a few buildings remain, along with one of the northernmost cemeteries in Canada.
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The abandoned settlement in Johnson Bay, Dundas Harbour (from near the cemetery)
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Tammarniit (mistakes): Inuit relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63
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at the eastern shore of the waterway also named Dundas Harbour (
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Ghost town on Devon Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923
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Dundas Harbour is located in Nunavut
74°32′N 82°23′W / 74.533°N 82.383°W / 74.533; -82.383 (Dundas Harbour (settlement))
Canada
Nunavut
Inuktitut
Qikiqtaaluk Region
Nunavut
Devon Island
74°33′N 82°30′W / 74.550°N 82.500°W / 74.550; -82.500 (Dundas Harbour (bay))
Baffin Bay
Croker Bay
whaling
Hudson's Bay Company
Inuit
Kinngait


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