Whale Cove Traditions

Whale Cove Traditions

Whale Cove holds a number of festivals throughout the year including:

• March/April (Easter weekend) Easter Festivities include igloo building and snowmobile racing

• May (Victoria Day Weekend) Annual fishing derby

• July 1 Hamlet Days and Canada Day Festivities include traditional arctic games and contests such as tea- and bannock-making, inuksuk-building and rabbit-hunting

• Christmas and New Years celebrations
  

Community gatherings often include feasts with traditional delicacies such as:

• igunaq ( aged maktaaq)
• pipsi (dried char)
• innaluaq (seal intestine)
• nipku (dried caribou)
• quaq (frozen caribou)

Square dances and indoor and outdoor games are enjoyed by all. Visitors are always welcome. For more information, contact the Hamlet of Whale Cove.

A happy fisherman

Inside an igloo

Inuit child in traditional clothing

A Bakeapple berry

Life by the Season in Whale Cove

Life in Whale Cove follows the seasons.

Spring finds most residents

• Fishing for Arctic Char
• Hunting geese
• Gathering goose eggs

Summer

• hunting for seal, whale and walrus
• gathering plants
• swimming at Old Water Lake

Fall

• berry-picking blackberries and bakeapple
• bear hunting
• fox and wolf hunting
• sewing parkas and wind pants for the winter

Winter

• making hats, kamiit and mittens
• sewing Inuit hunting clothes from hides and fur