Royal Canadian Mint releases Nunavut gold collector coin

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 09:05
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Image of the Ulaayu Pilurtuut designed collector coin from the Royal Canadian Mint. (Royal Canadian Mint)

The Royal Canadian Mint released a new collector coin this month made with gold from Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.

Inukshuks, stone formations made by Inuit, and a qulliq, an Inuit stone lamp, are featured on the coin. The images were designed by artist Ulaayu Pilurtuut.

Pilurtuut is an artist who was born in 1964 in Kangiqsujuaq, a village in Nunavik, the Inuit region of Arctic Quebec.

The coin has a $10 face value and is for sale on the Royal Canadian Mint website at mint.ca

There are 4,000 of them available and they retail for $249.95.

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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The Royal Canadian Mint released a new collector coin this month made with gold from Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.

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