Edmund Peck

Edmund James Peck , known in Inuktitut as Uqammaq , was an Anglican missionary in the Canadian North on the Quebec coast of Hudson Bay and on Baffin Island. He founded the first permanent mission on Baffin Island, Nunavut. He developed Inuktitut syllabics, derived from the Cree syllabary and the first substantial EnglishInuktitut dictionary.

Edmund James Peck was born April 15, 1850 in Rusholme, England. His mother and father died before his teen years. At fifteen, he joined the Royal Navy. By the age ofhe had served on the Ajax, Impregnable, Caledonia, Excellent and the Hector. On the Hector, he organized prayer groups for the crew.

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