Canadian Eskimo dog in danger TORONTO, March 27 (UPI) -- Dog breeders have said the Canadian Eskimo dog is in danger of extinction, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Sunday.

The laughing, tongue-lolling visage of an Inuit dog appeared first on a Canadian stamp in 1988, then on the 50 cent coin in 1997. A decade ago, the Canadian Kennel Club reopened its registry for ...

More than 1,000 of the dogs that Inuit relied on for their livelihoods were shot to death by Mounties, employees of the Hudson's Bay Company and other authorities from the mid-1950s until late ...

Recently, Canadian Inuit elders expressed deeply felt concerns about the dog killings in Northern Quebec in the fifties and sixties of the last century. In this paper, we examine the connection ...

Because of his efforts, the Canadian Inuit dog has survived. With about a dozen kennels now breeding the dogs across Canada, the registered population now surpasses 500, with hundreds more in ...

Dog breeders say extinction is a concern. The Canadian Kennel Club says the worldwide population of registered Canadian Eskimo dogs has dropped to about 300 from 20,000 just 55 years ago.

Originally, the Inuit people used them as sled dogs to haul goods and move from place to place. In the mid-20th century, there was an effort to eradicate the Canadian Eskimo Dog population.

Today, there may be as few as 279 Canadian Inuit Dogs in existence. Extremely hard-working and active, these dogs aren’t great with kiddos because of their strength and pack mentality.

Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree has formally apologized to Inuit in Nunavik for the federal government's role in the mass killing of sled dogs in the region in the 1950s and ...

The federal government apologized to Inuit in Nunavut for the RCMP's role in the killing of sled dogs there in 2019. Several representatives of Makivvik Corporation, which represents Inuit in Nunavik, ...