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Sergeant Alphonse Joyce, his wife and two children, with Monseigneur Turquetil and Pere Ducharme, catching the news on the radio, Chesterfield Inlet 1937 - Diocese of Churchill-hudson Bay, ChB AD 06 0035

Further up the hill is the community reservoir, completed in 1991 (20). For years, water for the community was hauled by water truck from first lake. Winter blizzards often prevented the trucks from operating and water was sometimes in short supply. Now water can be pumped directly from the lake and stored for future use. The existing water pump facility was replaced with a new water pump house for the reservoir in August, 2011 by the territorial government. The Naja Isabelle Home (28) is a residence for children or adults with disabilities. It employs approximately 35 staff from part time personnel to full time registered nurses from the south. The RCMP compound once stretched from here to Police Lake, and south of the Inuksuk and Airport Road. The Inuksuk (55) was built in August 2006, by the Hamlet of Chesterfield Inlet to commemorate the first RNWMP post in the area and the early post established in Chesterfield Inlet. From the reservoir, you can stroll across the tundra to one of several community burial grounds (21). A large monument marks the