Moses Kyak – His Story

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Moses and his family are from Pond Inlet. In 1950, Moses’s father; Kyak, was working for the RCMP as a Special Constable and he was sent with his family to Craig Harbour and then to Grise Fiord.

He first went up there to look over the location, I think we were sent up to prepare for the people before their arrival, they said that area needed to be populated and we were sent up there.”

“The things I remember when we went aboard the ship and were leaving our community, I was 7 years old perhaps, my mother and father and older brothers were outside so we could look at Pond Inlet that we were leaving and the blaring of the ship’s horn was especially noticeable, we experienced that.”

Moses Kyak – Pond Inlet, 2013