Paul Amagoalik – His Story

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Paul was born on the ship C.D.Howe while his family was being relocated from Inukjuak to Resolute Bay in 1953.

I didn’t really understand what the relocation was until I was about nine or ten years old. That’s when I started realizing what was happening or what had happened. So all the information I get about the relocation was the stories from my parents and uncles and grandparents.”

“That they lived in a different world, that they lived in a sustainable world, that they could live on a happy life, but when they were asked to move up here, they were told they were going to be here for only two years with an option to stay if they want, but after two years they wanted to come back down to Inukjuak but they were downrightly refused to go back, they were just asked to see if they could convince their other relatives to come instead which happened in 1955.”

Paul Amagoalik – Resolute Bay, 2012