Christmas in the Big Igloo: True Tales from the Canadian Arctic

Front Cover
Kenn Harper
Outcrop, 1983 - Nature - 55 pages
Collection of accounts describing Christmas in the Arctic over the past two hundred years.

From inside the book

 

Contents

A Horrible Mockery of the Spirit of ChristmasCharles Edward Smith
7
Christmas Time in Northern LabradorSam Metcalfe
20
Quviasukvik The Time for RejoicingAlex Stevenson
26
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

Aggakdjuk Aggulukdjuk ALLERSTON Arctic Bay Arctic char Arctic Christmas Baffin Island baking began Bernier Big Igloo Bilby biscuits boots cakes Canadian Arctic candy Captain caribou caribou skin celebration Christmas Day Christmas dinner Christmas Eve Christmas tree church services Cleveland clothing cold cook dance dark December dog team drum duffle Eskimos expedition explorers feast festivities Foxe Basin Freuchen friends frozen George Francis Lyon gifts hampers Hantzsch Hecla High Arctic Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Inuit Ittusakdjuak journey komatiks lamps light lived menu Merry Christmas missionaries morning Nalujuk natives night North o'clock Otto Sverdrup parachutes parcels parkas passed Pelly Bay Peter Freuchen piece of tobacco plum pudding Pond Inlet prizes radio Santa Claus seal meat season Sedna seemed settlement ship silapaak Sirkinirk snow houses spirit of Christmas Sverdrup trading village Viola weather whalers white fox William Edward Parry winter women

About the author (1983)

Kenn Harper has lived in the Arctic for over thirty years in Eskimo communities in the Baffin Region & in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, development officer, historian, linguist, & businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, the Eskimo language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, & has written extensively on northern history & the Inuktitut language. He now lives in Iqaluit, capital of the new Arctic territory of Nunavut, & was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

Bibliographic information

TitleChristmas in the Big Igloo: True Tales from the Canadian Arctic
EditorKenn Harper
ContributorJohn Allerston
PublisherOutcrop, 1983
Original fromIndiana University
Digitized20 Aug 2009
ISBN0919315070, 9780919315075
Length55 pages
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Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions
Religion / Holidays / Christmas & Advent
  
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