Mark Evaloarjuk, CM (

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Evaluarjuk; 1937 – July 3, 2002) was a northern Canadian business pioneer and politician from

Igloolik Igloolik ( Inuktitut syllabics: , ''Iglulik'', ) is an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, northern Canada. Because its location on Igloolik Island is close to Melville Peninsula, it is often mistakenly thought to be o ...

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. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1975 until 1983, and served as President of Arctic Cooperatives Ltd. In 1981, he became inducted as member of the

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. Evaluarjuk was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the

1975 Northwest Territories general election The 1975 Northwest Territories general election was on March 10, 1975. This was the first general election since 1902 that all the members of the assembly were elected. Fifteen members were elected to the Legislative Council. Election summary M ...

winning the new electoral district of

Foxe Basin Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes. Th ...

. He was re-elected to a second term in the

1979 Northwest Territories general election The 1979 Northwest Territories general election was held on October 1, 1979. Twenty-two members were elected to the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. In 1980, George Braden was named "Government Leader", the first democratic leader of ...

. His occupation was being a hotel owner in Igloolik in the 1979 election. On June 22, 1981, he was appointed to be a Member of the Order of Canada for his past work in bringing the cooperative movement to the Canadian arctic and helping to establish the largest employer of Aboriginal Canadians. Evaloarjuk ran for a seat in the

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. He defeated incumbent MLA Titus Allooloo to win the

Amittuq Amittuq () is a territorial electoral district ( riding) for the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Canada. The riding consists of the communities of Sanirajak and part of Igloolik. The boundary was redrawn for the 28 October 2013 general elect ...

Northwest Territories electoral district. Evaloarjuk served a single term in the Legislative Assembly until his district was abolished in 1999 when

was created from the

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. He ran in the first Nunavut general election in the new

Nunavut electoral district. He was defeated by Enoki Irqittuq in a hotly contested race finishing second. After his defeat, he became Vice President of the Qikiqtani Inuit Association. He died from cancer in

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on July 3, 2002.

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