Governor-General to visit Nunavut

Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson will be making community visits in Nunavut next week.

Clarkson and her husband, John Ralston Saul, will spend 10 days in the territory and visit six communities in the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions.

Their trip begins on May 8, when they’ll fly to Rankin Inlet and host a dinner with community leaders and elders. The next day they’ll head to Repulse Bay to take a walk to Naujaat, an historic site two kilometres east of the community. John Ralston Saul will make a special visit with Susanne Nuluk, a seamstress who made a pair of kamiik for him several years ago.

On May 10 in Taloyoak, the governor general will take an excursion to Netsilik Falls and later visit the crisis centre for women. In the evening, they’ll depart for Gjoa Haven. There, Clarkson and Ralston Saul will travel by dog team to Swan Lake.

Next on their stop is Cambridge Bay, where Ralston Saul will tour the newly built high school. Then, on May 14, they’ll go to Kugluktuk to meet with elders and visit the Brighter Futures Centre and the studio of Stanley Klengenberg.