In the 1950s and 1960s the government started to relocate Inuit. One major relocation was from Inukjuak, Nunavik to the High Arctic settlements of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord.
A planner comes and makes a plan of Igloolik like a Southern town. Then he moved some of the houses which had been built in a chaotic manner, and moved them onto the streets he had drawn.