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Town at the top of the world [videorecording (DVD)].

CBC Learning, 2007.

DVD 971.95 T743

Inuit -- Nunavut -- Grise Fjord.

Inuit -- Canada -- Government relations.

Inuit -- Canada -- Relocation.

Inuit -- Canada -- History.

Forced migration -- Canada.

Grise Fiord (Nunavut) -- History.

Grise Fiord (Nunavut) -- Social conditions.

Alternate title:

CBC News Special. Town at the top of the world [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 44 min.) ; digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

At head of title: CBC News Special.

Produced for television as a CBC News Special program originally shown on CBC Newsworld.

Public performance rights.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; A CBC Winnipeg/Newsworld production ; Producer, Terry Stapleton ; Executive Producer, Renée Pellerin.

Narrator, Reg Sherrin.

This is the story of the dark and painful birth of Grise Fiord, North America's northern most civilian community, The Town at the Top of the World. It's a town like no other with a history that most Canadians are unaware of... and would be ashamed of. In 1953 the Government of Canada picked up seven Inuit families in northern Quebec and dropped them two thousand kilometres farther north, in an unforgiving and isolated landscape. It was the height of the cold war and they were to be living flagpoles, Canada's claim to sovereignty over the high arctic. Everything was alien. They knew nothing of musk ox, polar bears and walrus. The sea was frozen ten months of the year and twenty-four hour darkness settled in for many months. They were given canvas tents and a few meagre supplies. The government recanted on the promises of housing and return trips. The leader of this small band of original families was dead within the first year. His surviving son, Larry Audlulak says his father suffered under the burden of leadership and he died of a broken heart. Larry is the last of the original exiles. He has much to be bitter about, but Audlulak doesn't want his children to grow up with the anger he felt. He has become a fiercely proud Canadian and Grise Fiord's unofficial flag bearer and ambassador. Today there are 145 residents in what is arguably the most isolated town in North America. There's an RCMP detachment, a school, the Grise Fjord Co-op, a post office, and an airstrip.

Documentary television programs.

Television news programs.

Television programs -- Canada.

Pellerin, Renée.

Stapleton, Terry.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

CBC Learning (Firm)

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