McGrath, Melanie, — The Long Exile.

NY, Knopf, 2007. G in G DJ ex-library. In 1952 the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from the east coast of Hudson Bay to a region of the. High Arctic that was 1,200 miles farther north. The Inuit were taken to Ellesmere Island, an arid and desolate landscape of shale and ice virtually devoid of life. It is blanketed in darkness for 4 months of the year. There the exiles were left to live on their own with little government support and few provisions. Library markings.