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| Pond Inlet, in the ancestral homeland of the North Baffin Inuit, is a rich area for Thule culture archaeological sites. The inlet was named after John Pond, Astronomer royal, by John Ross in 1888. The settlement’s Inuktitut name, Mittimatalik, means “the place where Mittima rests.” Exactly who Mittima was, however, remains a mystery.
From 1880 to about 1900, whalers and free traders frequented Albert Harbour, In 1921, the Hudson’s Bay Company |
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established a post, as did the RCMP.
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