Commissioner of Nunavut Eva Ariak travelled to Baker Lake on Tuesday, May 21, to hand out a number of Commissioner's Awards to local residents.
Among the awards presented that night was one to Jimmy Taliqpasik Nugyougalik for bravery.
Nugyougalik modestly told the story that would eventually lead to him winning the award 20 years later.
He recalled that he and a friend were on their way to the airport one day during the second or third week of July.
He said they were picking up a friend who was visiting Nunavut for the first time and, along the way, he noticed two young boys in a canoe on Baker Lake.
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Nugyougalik said he grabbed his boat and started pulling it into the lake. On the water, he spotted one boy and went directly to him. He was struggling, trying to get to shore. Nugyougalik grabbed him and easily threw him into the boat.
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At the awards ceremony in May, the mother of one of the boys was crying and said that her son who was 15 years old at the time, was now 35.
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