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While most communities in Nunavut grew around trading posts, whaling stations or seasonal hunting and fishing camps, Hall Beach was created instantly when a Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line site was built here in 1957 to help monitor Canadian air space in the Far North. Today, the community is home to a North Warning System radar site, a technologically advanced model of the DEW Line.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Inuit moved from surrounding camps to work and settle around the DEW Line site. (Sanirajak, meaning "one that is along the coast" in Inuktitut, refers to the broad region encompassing Hall Beach.) Yet despite the rapid changes that have occurred since those years, Hall Beach remains one of the most traditional communities in Nunavut.
Spread along a series of exposed sand and gravel beaches on the shore of Foxe Basin, and backed by a soggy carpet of lakes and tundra ponds, the place can seem rather desolate. Yet despite its bleak facade, Hall Beach can be a rich experience for tourists. Hall Beach is one of the few places in Canada where walruses are still numerous, and walrus hunting is a common activity between July and September.
The population as of 2003 is 609 (Inuit: 92%, non-Inuit: 8%).

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Last Updated: November 7, 2004
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