Father Guy Mary-Rousselière (Le Mans, France 1913-1994 Mittimatalik) was a French-Canadian

French Canadian

French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...

 anthropologist, missionary

Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...

 priest

Priest

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 at Mittimatalik, and string figure

String figure

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 collector. He was involved in recording Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

 songs

Inuit music

Traditional Inuit music, the music of the Inuit, has been based around drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq has become of interest in Canada and abroad....

, film-making, and had photographs occasionally published in National Geographic. He excavated many artifacts given to the National Museum in Ottawa

Canadian Museum of Civilization

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He was editor of Eskimo magazine for several years, a member of the Northwest Territories Historic Sites and Monuments Board for many years, and was a recipient, in 1988 from the Honourable Bill McKnight

Bill McKnight

The Honourable William Hunter "Bill" McKnight, PC is a former Canadian politician who now serves as the Treaty Commissioner for the Province of Saskatchewan.-Biography:...

, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, of a Northern Science Award recipient in 1988.