What You Will Find on this Website

The voices from Nunavut section includes written, audio and video material that describes how the information was gathered for Project Naming, as well as personal accounts by Nunavut Elders and youth about the project.

The Inuktitut language section provides a history on the development of syllabics.

An overview of the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) photographic collections included in this project is available by visiting the photo collections section.

Educational resources features the following four sub-sections: Classroom Discussions, Video Conferences, Talking to Elders and Research for Youth.

Further research includes selected references to books, articles, theses, films and videos, and related websites.

Visit the search the database section to access all images scanned for Project Naming. The database therein includes photographs of people who have been identified as a result of this project, as well as others in which the individuals are still unnamed. This section also highlights a selection of photographs of newly identified subjects, whose communities have been located on the map of Nunavut. To date, the names of hundreds of people have been remembered by Nunavut Elders, and work continues on the identification of still more.

The naming continues section features selected images for which names are still missing, and invites users to submit information relevant to the photographs.