Saturday August 23, 2025

Left is a hafted (attached to a handle) metal point on display at the we saw at the Itsanitaq Museum today. It was exciting to see a hafted version of a similar point that we found on the west peninsula a few days ago. 

Learning, sharing and keeping our hands busy in the classroom today. Started our first day of the culture heritage awareness program with trainees from Thompson and Churchill. Our Arviat trainee got weathered in at home. Weather conditions are a major influence on daily activity. 

​It's not looking good for Shakelton!

Friday August 23rd 1745
 
Excerpt from Journal of Prince of Wales’s Fort by Chief Factor Robert Pilgrim
 
The first part quite calm & seasonal the latter part a fresh breeze of E & cloud. The armour repairing old guns, the house carpenter & joiner on with the Smith on making of nails, the ship carpenter & sawyer on a Great Boat, the masons on the magazine, the labours yesterday one horse (the other being lame) a bringing water & stone into the yard in the evening light with fire under the lime kiln.
 
Reference: HBC Archives, Fort Churchill Post Journal B42-A-28 1745-1746