Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, opens men’s, women’s shelters for people in need – CBC

Mar 10, 2025

The Kitikmeot Friendship Society will operate the shelters and train Inuit to help Inuit

People without a safe place now have homes to go to in Gjoa Haven. The hamlet has opened two shelters, one for men and the other for women and children.

“It’s real now,” said Gjoa Haven Mayor Raymond Quqshuun Sr. “If they are ever in need, then we got places for people.”

The shelters opened after more than 20 years of advocacy. Quqshuun began working toward the shelters as chief administrative officer for the community in the 1980s.