Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 21 and Part 22

Collection

Citation

Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq, “Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 21 and Part 22,” Inuvialuit Cultural Centre Digital Library, accessed April 26, 2024, https://inuvialuitdigitallibrary.ca/items/show/1416.

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Title

Frank Uvvayuaq Cockney Life Stories Part 21 and Part 22

Audience

Contains sensitive material.

People

Cockney, Frank Uvvayuaq

Date

January 1977

Description

Frank Cockney is storytelling of his travels including to Aklavik where alcohol purchases were just opened to Indigenous people after initially only Caucasians were allowed to purchase alcohol from the Liquor store, of hauling stuff for Fred Carpenter, of trapping in the fur trade economy while raising his family from their cabin in the Delta, of when Dewline started in the summer of 1955, of the poker games at the Dewline, and of three people dying from poison while they were drinking, of a lot of money around when the Dewline provided employment, working at Bar 1 and Bar 2, then starting to stay at Tuktoyaktuk since the summer of 1956, and much more.

Type

Audio

Identifier

N-1992-253-0357

Dialect

Sallirmiutun