Photos by Geoffrey Secord.

More photos taken by Geoffrey Secord while he served as a doctor from 1953 to 1958 in Pangnirtung can be viewed on the following site.

http://archives.algomau.ca/drupal6/book/export/html/26219

Pangnirtung (or Pang, also Pangniqtuuq, in syllabics: ᐸᖕᓂᖅᑑᖅ) is an Inuit hamlet, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. The population was 1,325 in 2006, Pangnirtung is situated on a coastal plain at the coast of Pangnirtung Fjord, a fjord which eventually merges with Cumberland Sound. ...read more.

Pangnirtung Photo by Geoff Secord taken between 1953-1958

Photos from the Geoffrey Secord collection

Description

Start Date:

1953

End Date:

1955

Date Range:

1953-1958, [ca. 1970], 1983

Physical Description:

30 cm of graphic material and textual record. - ca. 240 kodachrome slides : col. and b&w. - 3 maps. - 8 books. - 24 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 6 cm

Arrangement:

Thematically by item type, chronologically within type.

History Biographical:

Geoff Secord was a doctor in the Northwest Territories from 1953-1955.

Scope Content:

Collection comprises photographic material, weather graphs, correspondence, maps, and publications relating to the Canadian Northern Arctic. All material was collected by Geoff Secord between 1953-1955 during his time in the Arctic.

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Admin

Custodial History:

Donated by Geoff Secord to the SRSC in July 2012. SRSC agreed to provide digital copies of all the material once it was scanned. The SRSC will also look into having the Inuktitut language material translated. If successful in translating material - SRSC will provide translations to Geoff.

Conservation:

Basic conversation performed during processing.

http://archives.algomau.ca/drupal6/book/export/html/26219

Maps of Pangnirtung in Nunavut.