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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero1

We must do all in our power to uphold Canada’s claim to this section of the Arctic.

—Henry Larsen2

When the police got here in 1954 they said to me, “Thanks, Fred, for holding this island for the Canadian Government for all these years.”

—Fred Carpenter3

I hear on the radio that the United States and Canada are squabbling over who has sovereignty in Arctic waters. What they are talking about is my people’s hunting grounds. We were hunting in the Arctic Ocean before the white man came to discover America. I hope they leave us a little salt water.

—Anthony Apakark Thrasher4

Finally, many books have been written by people who visited the north briefly and filled the knowledge gaps with their imagination. To quote Whitney Brown, the past actually happens, but history is only what someone wrote down.

—Alan MacNutt5