It gave me a sense of closure’: Database on Inuit tuberculosis graves offers some answers – CBC
Oct 05, 2017
Records on roughly 4,500 Inuit who were taken south will soon be shared with families
It was something of a fluke how Mary Nashook found her grandfather’s grave.
She was heading to Quebec City to work as an English-Inuktitut interpreter at a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting almost 20 years ago.
On the flight down, one of the delegates had a registry of Inuit who never came back from tuberculosis treatment, and who were buried in Quebec City. Nashook glanced at it, just in case.
