Even the dogs cried’: Casting a light on a dark chapter in Canada’s North – CTV
August 23, 2017
“That was a time when everyone cried. Even the dogs cried.”
Allie Salluviniq spoke softly when we arrived on the shore in Resolute Bay, his words clear and measured. It was evident he wanted to share his story to keep the history alive. Shockingly, it’s a part of Canada’s dark past I’d never learned in school. I wasn’t alone.
What Allie was recounting was a forced exile, something we often hear about happening beyond this country’s borders. Except this happened on Canadian soil. And many of us were hearing about it for the first time.
Salluviniq was three years old in 1953. Inuit families like his were forced from their home communities of Pond Inlet and Inukjuak, and pushed to live north — in Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord (Resolute Bay is Canada’s second-most northern community. Grise Ford is the first).
