Noo atsiaq biography of albert
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Taissumani: May 26, 1968 – The Albert lost off Greenland
KENN HARPER
If one were to ask Inuit elders what were the most famous ships of old in the eastern Arctic, the answers would probably be the Nascopie and the C. D. Howe. But a few generations ago, the answer would have been quite different, and it probably would have been a small vessel from Scotland, the Albert.
Built in 1889 in England as a hospital ship for the Royal National Mission to deep-sea fishermen, and paid for by an anonymous donor – thought to have been Queen Victoria – the Albert was a sailing vessel built of oak. On her bows she carried the words “Heal the Sick” and “Preach the Word,” and around her wheel was lettered the Biblical injunction, “And he saith, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Over the years, she was associated with many of the important names and events in the history of the eastern Arctic.
In 1892 she crossed the Atlantic fo
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HALIFAX, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
Sixty-fourth General Assembly
First Session
1:00 P.M.
SPEAKER
Hon. Keith Bain
DEPUTY SPEAKERS
Angela Simmonds, Lisa Lachance, Kent Smith, Danielle Barkhouse, Nolan Young
THE SPEAKER» : Order, please. We'll begin the daglig routine.
The honourable member for Pictou West.
HON. KARLA MACFARLANE» : I'm wondering if inom can rise on a point of order.
THE SPEAKER«» : Permission granted.
KARLA MACFARLANE«» : Sitting in this Chamber fryst vatten an absolute honour. It is a privilege for all of us. Our parliamentary privilege is unique to the Legislature.
The purpose of parliamentary privilege is to allow legislators and legislations to carry out the primary functions of deliberating, legislating, and holding the government to account. This privilege should be treated with caution and not used as a shield or an instrument for political gain.
Yesterday that privilege was abused here. It was used
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Who was Albert One-Eye?
The lives of Inuit who served on Arctic expeditions are poorly recorded. Often a name is noted, but the amount of detail that follows is maddeningly meager. One such man was Albert One-Eye, an Inuk born about 1824 on the east coast of James Bay, the so-called Eastmain of the Hudson's Bay Company.
One of the small mysteries that surrounds Albert's short but eventful life is his very name. It was unusual, in those far-off days, for an Inuk to use a surname. And this was an evocative surname, conveying an image of a one-eyed man in the service of explorers.
Yet, in anything written about him by the men he served, there is no reference to any physical handicap. One suspects that he had none, and that "One-Eye" was indeed a quasi-surname – he was probably the son of a man who had lost an eye.
Of Albert's early life, nothing is known. In the summer of 1842, when he was about 18, he was at Rupert House. We know this because Chief Tr