Younger Days on Banks Island by Bessie Lennie

Collection

Citation

Lennie, Bessie, “Younger Days on Banks Island by Bessie Lennie,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed August 9, 2025, http://slisdlibdev.srv.ualberta.ca/items/show/1438.

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Title

Younger Days on Banks Island by Bessie Lennie

People

Lennie, Bessie

Date

[197-?]

Description

Bessie Lennie is continuing her stories of when they lived on Banks Island with her relatives and with her husband and their one child, of their travels during summer and or winter, of other’s visiting and traveling with their ships, of hunting, fishing, and visiting family, of her husband working for the Supply Ship, of when the Department of Transportation was set up in Sachs Harbour, their winter homes, and much more. Note: The initial part of the storytelling is repeated from the previous story.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0376

Dialect

Kangiryuarmiutun