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Abandoned settlement in Nunavut, Canada
Kivitoo
Abandoned settlement
Small cemetery in KivitooSmall cemetery in Kivitoo
Kivitoo is located in NunavutKivitooKivitoo
Coordinates: 67°56′N 64°52′W / 67.933°N 64.867°W / 67.933; -64.867
CountryCanada
TerritoryNunavut
RegionQikiqtaaluk
Highest elevation313 m (1,027 ft)
Population
 • Total0
Time zoneUTC-5
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)

Kivitoo is an abandoned Inuit community and a former whaling station on the northeast shore of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. Kivitoo's Inuit families moved to Qikiqtarjuaq, approximately 50 km (31 mi) to the south, in 1963. Kivitoo Memorial Park remains at the southern shore of the hamlet.

History

In the early 20th century, the Sabellum Trading Company established a post at Kivitoo to service the whalers who would anchor there to flense carcasses. The post was abandoned in 1926.

Kivitoo (qivittu) (FOX-D) is also a former Distant Early Warning Line and is currently a North Warning System site. Because of a nearby small coastal plain, a short airstrip was built during early operation of FOX-D.

The residents of Kivitoo were evacuated to Qikiqtarjuaq in the 1963, purportedly for their safety, after three residents of the community were killed in a collapse of the ice under their igloos. However, the town was never resettled afterward, as the remaining structures in the community had been demolished by authorities by the time residents tried to return.

The evacuation and destruction of Kivitoo is the subject of Zacharias Kunuk's 2018 documentary film Kivitoo: What They Thought of Us.

References

  1. "Kivitoo". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  2. ^ Allinson, Martin. "Kivitoo, Nunavut FOX-D". Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  3. "Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 4: Kivitoo - What they thought of us?". Isuma. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  4. Bird, J B (1977). "Coastal Morphology and Terrain Studies, Kivitoo Peninsula, Baffin Island". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Grant, Shelagh D. "Niaqutiaq". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
  6. ^ "Over 50 years ago, tragedy struck this Nunavut community. Zacharias Kunuk's new film wants answers". CBC Arts, October 19, 2018.

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