Recherche dans la collection - Inuit family on board the C.G.S. C.D. HOWE at Grise Fiord [Ausuittuq, Nunavut]. [Kyak family from Tununiq (Pond Inlet). Back row, left to right: Moses Kyak, Lazarus Kyak, Mary (née Panigusiq) Cousins, Letia carrying Elizabeth in the amauti, and Leah. Front row, left to right: David, Carmen, Timothy, and Lily.]

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This photograph was taken on the medical ship, the C.D. Howe following the arrival of Mary (née Panigusiq) Cousins, the eldest daughter of the Kyak family. She served as the chief medical interpreter when the government was screening people for tuberculosis in the eastern Arctic.
Lazarus Kyak worked for Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a Special Constable. He and his family were relocated from Pond Inlet to Craig Harbour (Ellesmere Island) before the families from northern Quebec were relocated to the High Arctic. He is invested an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of his three decades of service to the Inuit as a Special Constable in the RCMP.

Eastern Arctic Patrol, Series 2