Polar Facts: Churchill, Canada #2

Did You Know? Churchill, Canada was first explored by the Pre-Dorset (Inuit ancestors) thousands of years ago.

The Pre-Dorset culture (1700 B.C.) lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle in the Churchill area, hunting caribou in the summer and ringed seal in the winter. They were followed around 600 B.C. by the Dorset people, members of the “Arctic Small Tool Tradition”. The Thule culture, which displaced the Dorset people around 1000 A.D., represents the ancestors of today’s Inuit. Long before Europeans arrived, the Cree, Dene and Inuit had well-established trading networks. (More at everythingchurchill.com)