Photo: Author releases book of stories on Ukkusiksalik Park

About 50 people filled the Unikkaarvik Visitor’s Centre in Iqaluit April 12 for David Pelly’s launch of his new book, titled Ukkusiksalik. Funded in large part by Parks Canada, the book is a collection of oral stories Pelly collected during the 1990s from Kivalliq-area Inuit elders. Ukkusiksalik National Park, the area around Wager Bay on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay, became a park in 2003, but was first proposed as a park in 1978. “It’s a landscape of stories, woven into the land, especially in the minds of older Inuit of the area,” said Pelly who is an author, journalist and historian. Pelly will be at Arctic Ventures today, April 13, at 4:30 p.m. to sign copies of his book. Read more later on nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO BY THOMAS ROHNER)