Ward Anirniq is home to 41 neighbourhoods and industrial areas

Ward Anirniq (“A-NIRK-NIK”) Map

map Albany Antony Henday Castledowns Antony Henday Mistatim Antony Henday Rampart Athlone Baranow Bonaventure Industrial Brown Industrial Caernarvon Calder Canossa Carlisle Carlton Cumberland Dominion Industrial Dovercourt Dunluce Gagnon Estate Industrial Garside Industrial Goodrige Corners Griesbach Hagmann Estate Industrial High Park Industrial Hudson Huff Bremner Estate Industrial Inglewood Kensington Lauderdale McArthur Industrial Mistatim Industrial Mitchell Industrial Oxford Pembina Prince Charles Rampart Industrial Rapperswill Rosslyn Sherbrooke Wellington Woodcroft Yellowhead Corridor West

Ward Anirniq Origin

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The Inuit - Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ) for "the people" - are the northernmost Indigenous people in Canada. Their traditional homeland is known as Inuit Nunangat.

In the 1950s and 60s, about one-third of Inuit people were infected with tuberculosis. Most were flown south for treatment in sanitariums like the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton, where they stayed for an average of two and a half years.

Those who survived returned home, but many Inuit passed away, often without their families being notified, and were buried in cemeteries in Edmonton, far from their homeland.

This ward was given the name Anirniq (ᐊᓂᕐᓂᖅ) which means ‘Breath of Life,’ or spirit. The name was recommended by Inuit Elders because tuberculosis took the breath and spirit of many Indigenous people.