Photo: New Iqaluit cemetery is consecrated

Rev. Mike Gardener, a retired minister from St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit, left, blesses Iqaluit’s new municipal cemetery in Apex at a brief opening ceremony Oct. 5. City officials hosted a few dozen residents for a first look at the newly-commissioned site on a blustery Sunday afternoon, followed by a reception at Abe Okpik Hall. Located at the southern edge of Apex, the cemetery’s 3.4-hectare windswept expanse overlooks Tarr Inlet and Frobisher Bay, and replaces Iqaluit’s half-century-old graveyard by Koojesse Inlet in Lower Iqaluit. (PHOTO BY PETER VARGA)