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Amadjuak
A small cove about halfway between Lake Harbour and Cape Dorset on the south coast of Baffin Island was chosen by Frank Melton in 1921 as a "convenience" post for the HBC Reindeer Company.
Post managers included Melton and C. Bradbury. The post was still in operation in 1972.
The Inuktituk name Kamakjuak (where Tunit dwellings were found) ...

Beacon Island
Information not available

Cape Dorset
The Post was located on the northern tip of Dorset Island near 64°15' N 77°W. Dorset Island is just off the southwestern tip of Baffin Island. The Cape Dorset Post was established in 1913 and manned by Hayward Parsons and Johnny Edmunds initially, although S.J. Stewart and Frank Melton, along with William Pennell and James Cantley, operated there at various times. In 1920 the Cape Dorset Post appears to have been staffed for only part of the year, in particular by Pennel and Cantley.
Peter Pitseolak, however, (p.83) reported William Ford and Esoaktuk, his guide, arrived in 1913 followed later by Parsons on the Daryl. Some temporary arrangment was made after William Ford left to return to Lake Harbour, according to Pitseolak, A might-have-been clerk and a might-have-been interpreter were left behind here in Cape Dorset. In 1914 Hayward Parsons and Stewart took up duties as manager and clerk.
Cape Dorset, a stop for land and ship expeditions around and across Baffin Island (see Millward), appears to have been operated well into the 1950's. It was the site of the Nascopie shipwreck in 1941.
The Inuktituk name is Kingine (the cape).

Coats Island
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Erik Cove
Cape Wolstenholme was named for Sir John Wolstenholme, a financial backer, by Henry Hudson during his 1610 voyage. Erik Cove, naned after the sailing vessel Erik under the command of ??? in ???, is located at 62°32'N 77°13'W immediately east of Cape Wolstenholme. The open harbour, which faces north into Hudson's Strait, has rather steep shores except at the bottom which is formed by a sand and gravel barachois which is where the Post buildings were established in 1909. Wolstenholme was the first Arctic Post established specifically for the white fox fur trade.
The post uneasily shared the beach with a Lamson-Hubbard Co. post 1920 to 1921, the establishment of which caused some consternation at Lake Harbour (see Post Journal) and was closed in 1947. Post managers at Wolstenholme included George Ford, S.J. Stewart and other Lake Harbour personnel.
Inuktituk names for Erik Cove include Ominak (the name for Wolstenholme Sound) and Khonittoarlook (Big Harbour). Since 1986 Erik Cove falls generally under the name Inujivik which is actually on the Hudson Bay side of the peninsula formed by the Cape Wolstenholme headland. Modern topographic maps show "ruins" at Erik Cove.
Wolstenholme figured prominently in Hudson's Bay Company literature over the years and is the site of the monument to William R. Ford and Christopher Sheppard (erected in 1918) in honour of their death by drowning in 1913.

Etinik
Called Fair Ness by late 17th century Scots whalers it is located on the south coast of Baffin Island about /??

Frobisher Bay
The modern community of Iqaluit (meaning "place of many fish") occupies a new location at the head of Frobisher Bay. HBC's first Frobisher Bay Post, established by Bradbury in 1920, was at ??? ??? on the ??? side of Frobisher Bay about ??? kilometers from Iqaluit.

High Bluff Island
The largest of the Upper Savage Islands, lieing off the east coast of Big Island, near 62&154;34'N 70°00'W,

Lake Harbour
Ralph Parsons established its Lake Harbour Post in 1911, two years after Archibald Fleming set up the first Anglican mission there, in a magnificent land-locked harbour near position 62°50'48"N 69°52'19"W. The post, and present day community, is located along the west side of the bottom of Lake Harbour, a northern indraught of Glasgow Bay, on the south coast of Baffin Island.
Glasgow Bay is located about halfway along the south coast of Baffin Island (280 dogsled miles to Cape Dorset; 240 to Resolute Island), at the southwestern extreme of Meta Incognita Peninsula. The bay is about 12 kilometers long and about 3 kilometers wide for most of its southern end, narrowing to less than 300 meters about 2.5 kilometers south of the community. Modern information about Kimmirut is available.
Glasgow Bay has about 20 islands, including Glasgow Island (the largest, about 5 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide at the southern end), Uugalautiit Island and Ijjurittiak Island, as well as many rocks and shoals. North Bay, to the west, and McKellar Bay, east, flank Glasgow Bay as major inlets of North Bay, Hudson Strait. Both sides of Glasgow Bay, and Lake Harbour, are steep and rocky rocks with few landing places except near the community. Soper Lake, 1.5 kilometers north of the community flows to Pleasant Inlet of North Bay. Some small streams enter Lake Harbour along the east and west sides.
Lake Harbour was headquarters for the Anglican Church of Canada mission to Baffin Island established and operated by Bishop A.L. Flemig between 1909 and 1915 and was ostensibly HBC headquarters for its Arctic Posts. The Nannuk and the Daryl were wintered over at Lake Harbour and remote outposts such as Cape Dorset, Wolstenholme, and Amadjuak were staffed and serviced from Lake Harbour. Lake Harbour managers included William R. Ford, Ralph Parsons, S.H. Parsons, Cantley, Stewart, Pennell, Learmonth, and Bradbury.
Millward (p.40) reported Rev. Fleming was the first white person to cross Meta Incognite Peninsula from Lake Harbour to Frobisher Bay on an Inuit trail northwest of Grinnell glacier in 1911. He also quoted (p.42-3) RCMP Sergeant Wight who reported 300 Inuit living and trading at Lake Harbour in 1921. Five white people there included three HBC employees and two Church of England missionaries "who settled there during the past summer [1921]." Wight visited Amadjuak and Lake Harbour on the Nascopie in October and November 1921. Of 20 government sponsored south Bafffin Island explorations between 1880 and 1930, reported by Millward, only Fleming used Lake Harbour as a base or terminus before 1923.
Ashe Inlet, on the south end of Big Island, which lies offshore Glasgow Bay, was well used by whalers and explorers between 1700 and 1900.
The Inuktituk names Kimmirut and Kingmaru both refer to a heel-shaped rock formation on the east side of Lake Harbour opposite the community.

Pilot's Point
No longer marked on maps, this may be now called Nascopie Point located about one third of the way out Glascow Bay near 62°49'N 69°50'W.

Saddleback
Saddleback Island is the largest of the Lower Savage Islands near 62°09'30"N 67°54'00W, about 60 nautical miles (120 kilometeres) south east of North Bay, of which Glascow Bay and Lake Harbour are inlets.

Stupart's Bay
Located at 61°40'N 72°W Stupart's Bay is a small northeast facing cove on the south shore of Hudson's Strait about ..... The bay had several names including Wakeham Bay and Stuperts Bay over the years but latterly the community was known as Maricourt and Kangiqsujauq since 1985.
The HBC post was established there in 1914 seven year after it was initially recommended as a likely spot and, it appears, in response to Revillon Freres post set up in 1910. Wakeham Bay Post was changed to Sturpart's Bay in 1915. Possibly the farthest post serviced from Lake Harbour.
M. Leo Manning was manager 1938 to 19?? ...

Sugluk
Now called Salluit, the HBC's Sugluk Post was established at the head of Sugluk Inlet, on the south coast of Hudson Strait near 62°09'N 75°50'W.
The modern community is on the east side of the inlet about halfway out. It is about 60 kilometres west of Deception Bay.

Ungonochie
Information not available.

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