Canada's dirtiest secret: families frozen out, forgotten for 30 years.
In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and assuring them they could return home after two years if things didn't work out. They would not see their ancestral lands for 30 years. Abandoned in flimsy tents, the Inuit were left to fend for themselves in the desolate settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord, where the sea was nearly always frozen and darkness reigned for months on end.
Direction
Tassinari lets survivors speak. No dramatics needed.
Production
Archival footage hits like a gut punch.
Writing
Narration stays spare—testimony needs no embellishment.
Director
Patricia V. Tassinari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of several High Arctic relocations; Inuit were essentially human placeholders to secure Canadian territorial claims during Cold War tensions.
Official apologies came in 2010—fifteen years after this film and nearly sixty after the betrayal.
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