Here are some interesting facts about the Iqaluit community.

Statistics Canada figures show Nunavut's population at the time of its formation in 1999 was approximately 27,000.   The City of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, is the largest community with a population more than 7,250.

According to the 1996 Census, Inuktitut is the dominant language in Nunavut with 60 per cent speaking it at home compared with 35 per cent speaking English.

Iqaluit, Inuktitut for "place of many fish," is located near the mouth of the Sylvia Grinnell River that empties into the bay named after Martin Frobisher, the Englishman in search of the Northwest Passage. Besides thinking he had discovered the Passage, Frobisher believed that he had discovered gold on an island in the bay, but it was only fool's gold that he took home to England. Between 1955 and 1987 the settlement of Iqaluit was known as Frobisher's Bay.

This information is from the City of Iqaluit website.