Family support and commemorative events
The Nanilavut Initiative will provide a range of supports for families and Inuit communities, including:
- providing information, where available, to Inuit families about family members who were sent away for treatment
- enhancements to gravesites
- community commemoration events and monuments
- health support and tuberculosis awareness
In addition, some compassionate travel support will be provided to facilitate family members' to visit gravesites and cemeteries, in order to honour the deceased family member and pay their respects.
Commemorative events
There will be:
- regional and/or community-based commemorative events held across Inuit Nunangat to honour those who have died and support those who were affected
- plans to commission monuments to honour Inuit from the past tuberculosis era and acknowledge this significant period of Inuit history
- support to properly identify the graves of Inuit who succumbed to the disease, by marking hundreds of gravesites with headstones and installing plaques and monuments in cemeteries
- public education tools will be created to help raise awareness of the past tuberculosis era and work towards reducing current rates of tuberculosis among Inuit
Contact information:
To request information on family members who were sent away for treatment, or for information on Nanilavut activities, please contact a Nanilavut Project Manager:
Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated:
P.O. Box 638
Iqaluit, NU X0A 0H0
Toll free: 888-646-0006
Local phone: 867-975-4900
Fax: 867-975-4949
Website: https://www.tunngavik.com/
Email: nanilavut@tunngavik.com
Inuvialuit Regional Corporation:
107 Mackenzie Road
Bag Service #21
Inuvik, NT X0E 0T0
Toll free: 1 (855) 777-7011
Phone: 867-777-7000
Fax: 877-289-2389
Website: http://www.irc.inuvialuit.com/
Email: nanilavut@inuvialuit.com
Makivik Corporation:
P.O. Box 179
Kuujjuaq, Quebec J0M 1C0
(819) 964-2925
1 (877) 625-4845
Website: https://www.makivik.org/
Email: nanilavut@makivik.org
Nunatsiavut Government:
25 Ikajuktauvik Road
P.O. Box 70
Nain, NL A0P 1L0
Phone: (709) 922-2942
Fax: (709) 922-2931
Website: http://www.nunatsiavut.com/
Email: nanilavut@nunatsiavut.com
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami:
75 Albert Street, Suite 1101
Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7
Toll free: 1 (866) 262-8181
Phone: (613) 238-8181
Fax: (613) 234-1991
Website: https://www.itk.ca/
Email: nanilavut@itk.ca