Inuit Memorial - Woodland Cemetery, Burlington, Ontario

In this short video we examine the history behind the Inuit Memorial at Woodland Cemetery in Burlington, Ontario. This memorial tells the tragic story of those who passed away at the Hamilton Sanitorium during the 1950s and 1960s while being treated for Tuberculosis.

Sources and Extra Reading

• Jeff Mahoney, “Dislocating journey of Inuit to Sanatorium chronicled,” Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON), February 10, 2017.
• Kelly Bennett, “Telling the story of hundreds of Inuit, sick with TB who were shipped to Hamilton,” CBC (Hamilton, ON), November 9, 2016. 
• John Robert Colombo, “Ookpik,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed September 7, 2020. 
• Frank Croft, “The changeling Eskimos of the Mountain San,” MacLeans, February 1, 1958. 
  
• "Carving Home: The Chedoke Collection of Inuit Art", Art Gallery of Hamilton. 
  
• Shawn Selway, Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic 1950-1965. Hamilton: James Street North Books, 2016.
• Jane Irwin, Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory. Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2007.