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Les pratiques de l’écriture à Iqaluit, la capitale du Nunavut, et à Igloolik, une plus petite communauté au nord de la région de Baffin, mettent en scène la gestion quotidienne du bilinguisme chez les locuteurs du nouveau territoire. Depuis l’apprentissage du syllabique jusqu’aux sites de socialisation sur Internet, des expériences individuelles sont présentées et explicitent le contexte et les attitudes linguistiques qui gouvernent les choix de langue en fonction du mode d’expression. Le caractère marginal de l’écriture en langue inuit ressort nettement dans ce portrait des pratiques, quelle que soit la vitalité de la langue à l’oral. Cette restriction sur l’épanouissement de l’inuktitut dans tous les domaines possibles d’utilisation fragilise l’équilibre d’une nécessaire relation de complémentarité avec l’anglais. Une étude de la situation linguistique au Groenland laisse entrevoir une autre réalité, ce qui suscite plusieurs questionnements. La diversité dialectale, l’expérience d’urbanisation, les dynamiques économiques et les mobilisations identitaires influencent les pratiques de l’écriture. Les conséquences quant à l’effort de promotion de la langue inuit en sont tirées. Mots clés : écriture syllabique, Nunavut, langue inuit. / Literacy practices in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, and Igloolik, a smaller community located in the northern Baffin region, illustrate the daily management of bilingualism by the speakers of the new territory. From the learning of syllabics to social networking sites, a large range of individual experiences is discussed. They contextualize linguistic attitudes, which determine language choice according to the mode of expression. The marginality of Inuit language literacy is readily perceived in this portrait of practices, regardless of the vitality that the language may show orally. These limitations on the expansion of Inuktitut, in all possible domains of use, weaken the balance of an unavoidable complementary relationship with English. A study of the linguistic situation in Greenland shows a different reality, which raises several questions. Dialect diversity, lived experiences of urbanization, economical dynamics and identity mobilizations all have an influence on literacy practices. Conclusions are then drawn about the promotion of the Inuit language. Keywords: syllabic literacy, Nunavut, Inuit language.

This thesis explores twenty years of community based tourism policy and planning in the Baffin Region. This rise of local participation in tourism development is reviewed. Such an approach is seen as being potentially beneficial to marginalized aboriginal people in remote areas. This, combined with political support for Inuit self determination, formed the rationale behind community based tourism policy in Baffin. / With its extensive community participation program, the planning process formed a strategy for sustainable tourism. Since then, the industry has grown but some of the strategy's goals have not been met. The number of Inuit involved in the industry initially increased, but is now beginning to decline and turnover is high. Interest in the industry, and initiatives such as training, need to arise from inside communities rather than the government. To complement traditional subsistence hunting, the tourism industry must support short term employment.

During the summers of 1961 through 1964 field parties of the Geographical Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, conducted studies in the physical geography of north-central Baffin Island. While field research emphasized the glacial geomorphology of the area about the northwest margin of the Barnes Icecap, air photo interpretation over a much wider area revealed the existence of a series of major terminal and lateral moraines stretching for 640 km. (400 miles) in a belt roughly parallel to the heads of the Baffin Bay fiords (Map 1). [...]

At the intersection of institutional, local and personal perspectives, this thesis explores what it means to build a Healthy Community in the Canadian Arctic hamlet of Igloolik, Nunavut. It observes that neither the dominant concepts of critical theory nor those of institutional health promotion can sufficiently account for the ways in which Healthy Community discourse and values are adopted and engaged locally. / Contextual semantic analysis is used to examine the health promotion values of 'community,' 'participation' and 'empowerment' in the narratives of Inuit interview participants. Along with historical and ethnographic data, these narratives suggest the ways in which health promotion and wellness values are variously adopted, redirected or infused with particular meaning in the context of both personal and political experience. / By destabilizing the consensus implied by institutional health promotion discourse and by recognizing the multiplicity of meanings and practices surrounding the Healthy Community, it can continue to inspire innovation in healthcare strategies.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the shift in focus of control from a centralized administration towards an Inuit board of education as a result of the decentralization efforts of the Northwest Territories Department of Education. The study additionally investigated the consequences of this shift as well as the satisfaction levels of the client group. A questionnaire was used to gather data from the board as a whole and an interview protocol was used with a group of key informants. It was found that a shift in locus of control towards the Divisional Board of Education had taken place. This had resulted in higher satisfaction levels in terms of the overall system and improved outcomes in terms of participation in decision making, consultation processes, flow of information, services to communities, and conflict resolution. It was concluded that while these outcomes had been realized the board was constrained in its actions and in the exercise of its authority by the limited decentralization that had occured, by the lack of direction, and by the lack of an informed membership.

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Thèse (M.A.) -- Université Laval, 2006. / Bibliogr.: f. [162]-170. Présenté aussi en version électronique.

Economically important Mississippi Valley type zinc-lead deposits exist in a late Proterozoic dolomite, the Society Cliffs Formation, at north Baffin Island, District of Franklin, N.W.T., Canada. The Society Cliffs Formation ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 feet in thickness and is underlain by up to 2,000 feet of black, organic-rich shale, the Arctic Bay Formation, and overlain by either black shale and limestone of the Victor Bay Formation or by red, fine- to coarse-grained clastic rocks of the Strathcona Sound Formation. Disconformities exist between each of the formations. Society Cliffs Formation has undergone at least four temporally distinct episodes of karstification since its deposition. The most important karst episode, with respect to the formation of the zinc-lead deposits, occurred during the hiatal interval between the deposition of the Victor Bay Formation and the deposition of the Strathcona Sound Formation. During this hiatal interval a holokarst developed in Society Cliffs Formation and a large integrated cave system of the Mammoth Cave-Flint Ridge Cave System type was formed; i.e. long, nearly horizontal, tubular passages were formed during initial periods of base-level stabilization, followed by the development of sub-vertical canyons beneath the tubes when the base-level dropped. After this karst episode the Society Cliffs Formation was deeply buried and the cave system was partially or completely filled with sulphide and carbonate minerals. The zinc-lead deposits are characterized by banded structure which comprises pyrite, relict marcasite, sphalerite and galena interlayered with sparry dolomite. The zinc-lead deposits contain several sedimentary structures that were formed by a chemical deposition-chemical corrosion process. These include cross-stratification, cut-and-fill and onlap. Onlap indicates the paleocaves were filled from the floor up. The meteoric waters which formed the caves did not form the zinc-lead deposits because the temperature of ore deposition was between 200°C and 150°C, the calculated oxygen isotope composition of the ore fluid is +12.8 per mil, and mineral stability and isotopic data indicate the oxygen fugacity decreased during ore deposition. The sulphide sulphur isotope composition of the zinc-lead deposits has a relatively narrow range about +26 per mil, similar to that of sulphate evaporite (+23.7 per mil) which exists locally within the Society Cliffs Formation. Lead isotope data indicate the lead in the deposits was derived by at least a two-stage process from a source with a uniform uranium-thorium ratio. The ore fluid and contained metals are postulated to have been derived from the Arctic Bay Formation during a late-stage dewatering of the shale. Sulphide deposition may have been caused by the chemical reduction of sulphate which existed in the ore fluid when the ore fluid entered hydrocarbon-filled caves. The hydrocarbons were probably expelled from the Arctic Bay Formation shale during an earlier stage of thermal metamorphism and dewatering. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate