Resolute Airport with dogs I had purchased ready to depart for
 Yellowknife on a PWA sponsored flight

Canadian Inuit Dogs I have owned, raised and trained:
A photo essay; Part 1

by William J. ‘Qimmiliriji’  Carpenter

 A long time ago, sometime between 1976 and 1978, some Inuit Elders (mainly ladies) from Eskimo Point, now known as Arviat, were visiting me in Yellowknife.  We sat on the floor in my livingroom with one of my male dogs, then also with a female dog. The ladies were showing me how they measured with their hands for the proper sizing for making traditional Inuit dog harnesses. During our discussions about their history with dogs, they told me through an interpreter that they “used to be the dog people” but were no longer that. When we later went outside they wrote something in syllabics with a large marker on the bulletin board sign I had near the wooden stairs leading up to the large holding cages for my dogs.  They said what they wrote was my name.  When I asked through their interpreter, how does that say “Bill Carpenter”? They laughed and laughed saying “... It does not say ‘Bill Carpenter’. It says ’Qimmiliriji’ which is what we call you, and it means ‘The Dog Man’.”

                                                                                                                                                                     WJC

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These first six photos are some of the original dogs I  purchased.

These four photos are of dogs that I donated to the outpost camp on Reid Island.

These five photos are from the Stuart M. Hodgson Canadian Eskimo Dog Sledging
Expedition (1979),  Resolute to Cape Eyre on Prince of Wales Island just off Franklin Strait.

Admiring and using my Canadian Inuit Dogs