The 2008 documentary Exile by Zacharias Kunuk documents the experiences of Inuit families who were forcibly relocated to Ellesmere island in the 1950s to settle it for the Canadian government. The families discuss being deceived by the government about the conditions and terms of where they were going and having to endure years of surviving in inhospitable conditions with little food or water. [61] a b c "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Nunavut". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022 . Retrieved 19 February 2022. However it’s hard to imagine that this pretty little market town in the heart of the Shropshire countryside was actually the catalyst for one of the greatest canal networks in the country and subsequent feats of breathtaking engineering that challenged the great Thomas Telford but it’s true. The town even gave its name (very generously) to Ellesmere Port to confirm the fact – more of this to follow.

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Grise Fiord [ edit ] Monument to the first Inuit settlers relocated to Grise Fiord in 1952–55. This was during Canada's controversial High Arctic relocation program. Ellesmere Island". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 23 April 2009. The History of Parliament Trust, HOLBACHE, David (d.c.1422), of Dudleston and Oswestry, Salop retrieved 6 March 2018 Toddler session was such good fun! Nice and quiet and safe for under 5’s to explore. Good variety of music playing paw patrol, teletubbies an lion king. Daily Data Report for June 2009". Canadian Climate Data. Environment and Climate Change Canada. 31 October 2011 . Retrieved 12 May 2016.Ellesmere prides itself on its individual and independent shops – some have been in the same family for generations and you only last that long if you know how to value your customers. North Shropshire approaches North Wales just past Oswestry and then slides across the north of the county featuring five distinctly different market towns and a scattering of pretty villages including Whittington. A paleolimnological study of algae in the sediments of shallow ponds on Cape Herschel (which faces Smith Sound on Ellesmere's eastern coast [33] [34]) found that the ponds had been permanent and relatively stable for several millennia until experiencing ecological changes associated with warming, beginning around 1850 and accelerating in the early 2000s. During the 23-year study period, an ecological threshold was crossed as several of the study ponds had completely desiccated while others had very reduced water levels. In addition, the wetlands surrounding the ponds were severely affected and dried vegetation could be easily burned. [35] Glaciers, ice caps and ice shelves [ edit ] Glaciers of southeastern Ellesmere Island, June1975 Ward Hunt Island (foreground), Ward Hunt Ice Shelf and northern Ellesmere Island (left), July 1988 The overhanging ice front of Webber Glacier with waterfalls. Debris rich layers of the ground moraine are sheared and folded into the ice of the advancing polar glacier. The glacier front is 6km (3.7mi) broad and up to 40m (130ft) high. Borup Fiord, Grant Land, Ellesmere Island, July1978 Nathorst, AG (1915). Tertiare Pflanzenreste Aus Ellesmere-Land. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the Fram, 1898–1902. Vol.35. The Society of Arts and Sciences of Kristiania.

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Historic England. "Church of St Mary, Ellesmere Urban (1055505)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 February 2013. Where are the best places to visit in North Shropshire? A day out from Oswestry will give you a wonderful mix of family friendly attractions and glorious North Shropshire scenery along canals and around meres.Huge Arctic ice break discovered". BBC News. 29 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015 . Retrieved 3 February 2014. Kalkreuth, WD; Riediger, CL; McIntyre, DJ; Richardson, RJH; etal. (1996). "Petrological, palynological and geochemical characteristics of Eureka Sound Group coals (Stenkul Fiord, southern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada)". International Journal of Coal Geology. 30 (1–2): 151–182. doi: 10.1016/0166-5162(96)00005-5. a b Vincent, WF; Gibson, JAE; Jeffries, MO (2001). "Ice-shelf collapse, climate change, and habitat loss in the Canadian high Arctic" (PDF). Polar Record. 37 (201): 133–142. doi: 10.1017/S0032247400026954. S2CID 85551921. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 September 2008 . Retrieved 29 December 2006.

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Ellesmere Island is the setting of much of Melanie McGrath's The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic [57] about the High Arctic relocation, and also of her Edie Kiglatuk mystery series. [58] British and United States Arctic expeditions had been interrupted for some years due to the priorities of the Crimean War and the American Civil War, respectively. [9] :340 By about 1860, the focus of Arctic exploration had shifted to the North Pole. As earlier attempts at the pole via Svalbard or eastern Greenland had reached impasses, numerous expeditions came to Ellesmere Island to pursue the route through Nares Straight. [9] :334 Much of the initial phase of European exploration of the North American Arctic was centred on a search for the Northwest Passage and undertaken by Britain. [9] :334 The 1616 expedition of William Baffin were the first Europeans to record sighting the then-unnamed Ellesmere Island (Baffin named Jones and Smith Sounds on the island's south and southeast coasts). [10] However, the onset of the Little Ice Age interrupted the progress of explorations for two centuries. Cox, Greg (2013). Man of Steel: The Official Movie Novelization. London: Titan Books. pp.92, 95, 96–114. ISBN 978-1-78116-599-7 . Retrieved 29 November 2012. NASA Earth Observatory (20 January 2004). "Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf". Archived from the original on 16 September 2008 . Retrieved 13 January 2005.Ellesmere has just about all the amenities you’ll need - a Tesco, a Coop, a delicatessen, Post Office, marina... the towpath isn’t too busy. Lying within the Arctic Archipelago, Ellesmere Island is considered part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Cape Columbia at 83°06′41″N 069°57′13″W / 83.11139°N 69.95361°W / 83.11139; -69.95361 ( Cape Columbia) [4] is the most northerly point of land in Canada and one of the most northern points of land on the planet (the most northerly point of land on Earth is the nearby Kaffeklubben Island of Greenland). a b Jeffries, Martin O. (March 1986). "Ice Island Calvings and Ice Shelf Changes, Milne Ice Shelf and Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T" (PDF). Arctic. 39 (1). doi: 10.14430/arctic2039. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2006. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Telford, Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.26 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.573. BBC News (3 September 2008). "Major ice-shelf loss for Canada". Archived from the original on 4 September 2008 . Retrieved 3 January 2010.