57 Years of Silence Inuit Relatives Finally Hear Truth, Details Abut Crash of Rcaf Plane Carrying Polio Victims

ARVIAT -- In August of

1949, a young girl fell

ill while camping with

her family inland from

this small, windswept hamlet on

the west shore of Hudson Bay.

She, her parents and 15-year-old

brother were

following the

migration of

the caribou, as

did most Inuit

of the day.

Ubluriak, 12,

was the light

of her mother

Nipalukunii's life: Ubluriak

means "star" in Inuktitut.

Within days, Ubluriak would

fall from the sky.

She was in an RCAF Canso

amphibious aircraft flying with

other polio-stricken Inuit from

the missionary hospital in Chesterfield

Inlet to Winnipeg's King

George Hospital. All 20 people

on board -- seven RCAF crewmen,

four federal employees

from a weather station in Clyde

River at Baf...

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