Arctic housing -- Photograph

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View of Arctic Bay, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut, from the breakwater. Traditional sod and canvas summer house on the shoreline, far left next to the blue boat. White 'matchbox' house to the right (behind the white boat), an example of wooden housing provided by the Canadian federal government to Inuit families in the 1950s, in use as a storage shed. August 2000

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en

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Arctic Bay, Nunavut

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