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Mangilaluk, the chief of Tuktoyaktuk in the early 1900s. (National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnology, Fifth Thule Expedition)
Early Tuktoyaktuk
Inuvialuit had lived at Tuktoyaktuk since ancient times. In the early 1900s it was a favoured fishing locality. Mangilaluk started a permanent settlement there in 1905, and for many years was the chief, or umialiq, of the community.
In 1934 the Hudson's Bay Company moved
its post 
from Kitigaaryuk to Tuktoyaktuk.
Tuktoyaktuk was a good location for a trading post because it has an
excellent harbour .
In 1955, work began on a Distant
Early Warning (DEW) Line site .
Many Inuvialuit who worked on the DEW Line site settled in Tuktoyaktuk.
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