Donated Jays Care ball diamond ends up on tundra outside Arctic Bay – Nunatsiaq News
Sep 3, 2025
Some say it’s too far from hamlet; others ask where else would it go?
Arctic Bay is home to a new baseball diamond thanks to a donation from the Jays Care Foundation — but some are wondering how it ended up plopped on the tundra, five kilometres outside the hamlet.
The Jays Care Foundation is the charitable arm of the Toronto Blue Jays. The foundation announced it was providing $46,000 for the field in 2022. The project was complete in July 2023.
The area originally planned for the ball diamond — a plot near the cemetery and bed and breakfast — was “too swampy,” said Lorna Oqallak, the hamlet’s director of recreation.
