Ikaluktutiak Co-operative Limited
Box 38,
Cambridge Bay, NU X0B 0C0
Ph: (867) 983-2201
Fax: (867) 983-2085
This Co-op began in the late 1950s as a craft store and hotel. It was incorporated in 1961 and at one time operated a commercial fishery. Today, this thriving Co-op operates two hotels, a gas bar, taxi service, cable services, fuel delivery service and property rentals. The Co-op expanded its retail facility in 1995 and is also involved in many of the local contracts in Cambridge Bay.
About Cambridge Bay
Alternate Name: Ikaluktutiak
Local Meaning: Good Fishing Place
POPULATION: 1351
TIME ZONE: Mountain
Located on the southeast coast of Victoria Island, Cambridge Bay has an abundance of wildlife. Caribou, fish, waterfowl, seals, visitors to Cambridge Bay can take guided tours to see musk oxen and nesting birds at Mt. Pelly. Choose from self-guided walking tours of Cambridge Bay to learn more about the community's history.
Cambridge Bay is the jumping off point for two excellent canoeing rivers -- the Nanook and the Kuujjua Rivers. Both rivers will take canoeists a number of weeks to ford, and include difficult portages. These trips offer fabulous scenery, but are only recommended to experienced Arctic canoers, and they can only be undertaken in the month of July when ice and snow are at low points.
The Arctic Coast Visitors' Centre overlooks the bay and features Inuit history, arts and culture. Interpretative trails at Cambridge Bay take visitors through an old town site, and the wreck of Amundsen's ship. Naturalist tours can be arranged, which include wildlife watching for musk oxen, tundra birds and other waterfowl, and brilliantly flowered tundra in July.
www.polarnet.ca/polarnet/cambay.htm
http://cgdi.gc.ca/ccatlas/kiilinik/
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