Explore Utqaluk
"Temporary Stopping Place"

Many Inuit schooners were rented by the Company to transport provisions. I was paid $40 a ton to go to Baillie Island … ("I, Nuligak" p. 172)

Utqaluk is a sand spit on Baillie Island that has long been an area where Inuvialuit fished for herring in summer.

The Hudson's Bay Company operated a trading post , called Baillie Island Post, at Utqaluk from 1916-1939.