Life at the small settlement of Pangnirtung on eastern Baffin Island, where there is as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post, a Hudson’s Bay Company store, a mission hospital and a government school. The film presents on-the-spot accounts of the work of all of these. This is a shorter version of the film “Pangnirtung”.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
000515
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Arctic regions
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Canada - Social life and customs
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)