Baillie Island Move

1939AD

1900–1950

Utqaluk/Baillie Island is abandoned due to frequent flooding of the sandspit where a HBC trading post and Inuvialuit community are located; much of the population relocates to Tuktuuyaqtuuq.

Baillie Island during a storm, 1929. Photo credit: R. C. Diocese Archives/L. T. Burwash.