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 Christian Klengenberg (1869 – 1931)
-Klengenberg was born in Svendborg, Demark. At age sixteen he was a cook’s assistant onboard the //Iceland// and travelled to places in both the Atlantic and Pacific. In 1893, he was on the trading ship //Emily Schroede//r and arrived at the Inupiat village of Point Hope, Alaska. He met his wife Gremnia Qimniq, a Tikigaq, and they made a home there. In 1894, Klengenberg signed on as a pilot of the whaler //Orka// and travelled to Herschel Island. Though he originally intended to return immediately to Point Hope he signed on as a whaler aboard the //Mary D. Hume,// and spent the summer whaling the Beaufort Sea. They anchored off Banks Island and Klengenberg discovered footprints in an area thought to be uninhabited. He kept his knowledge secret, intending to come back and trade with them. In 1905, Klengenberg was ordered to stay in sight of Charles McKenna’s ship but he convinced the captain of the //Olga// to try and find these people. The //Olga //was pushed off course and ended up anchored off the southwest coast of Victoria Island.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))
+Klengenberg was born in Svendborg, Demark. At age sixteen he was a cook’s assistant onboard the //Iceland// and travelled to places in both the Atlantic and Pacific. In 1893, he was on the trading ship //Emily Schroede//r and arrived at the Inupiat village of Point Hope, Alaska. He met his wife Gremnia Qimniq, a Tikigaq, and they made a home there. In 1894, Klengenberg signed on as a pilot of the whaler //Orka// and travelled to Herschel Island. Though he originally intended to return immediately to Point Hope he signed on as a whaler aboard the //Mary D. Hume,// and spent the summer whaling the Beaufort Sea. The Klengenberg family along with the crew of the //Olga// and three western Inuvialuit families spent the winter of 1905 headquartered at Penny Bay. The camp acted as a trading post and a base for contact and trade with surrounding Copper Inuit groups. The next summer, Klengenberg returned to Herschel Island with four less crewmen. He resigned his position and returned to Alaska with his family. The other crewmen reported that Klengenberg had shot the engineer, Jackson Paul, and a witness had died while chained in the ship’s hold. Two other witnesses disappeared. Klengenberg was charged with murder and turned himself in. He was tried and acquitted in San Francisco in 1907.During the following years Klengenberg stayed in the western Arctic hunting, trapping, whaling, and trading.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))
-The Klengenberg family along with the crew of the //Olga// and three western Inuvialuit families spent the winter headquartered at Penny Bay. The camp acted as a trading post and a base for contact and trade with surrounding Copper Inuit groups. The next summer, Klengenberg returned to Herschel Island with four less crewmen. He resigned his position and returned to Alaska with his family. The other crewmen reported that Klengenberg had shot the engineer, Jackson Paul, and a witness had died while chained in the ship’s hold. Two other witnesses disappeared. Klengenberg was charged with murder and turned himself in. He was tried and acquitted in San Francisco in 1907.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))
-During the following years Klengenberg stayed in the western Arctic hunting, trapping, whaling, and trading. In 1917, he moved his family to the Coronation Gulf and established a trading post near Cape Kendall, north of Coppermine. He moved his post several times before settling on Rymer Point (Nuvuk), on the southwest shore of Victoria Island in 1919.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))
-In 1920, Klengenberg set up another post at Bathurst Inlet. In 1924, he sailed his ship, the //Maid of New Orleans,// to Herschel heading for his family on Victoria Island. He learned that he could not bring foreign goods into Canada. He was allowed to supply his family if he picked up an RCMP officer at Baillie Island, which he did. Constable MacDonald disappeared on the return trip to Baillie. His parka and notebook were found in the water. The incident was investigated, because the officer was the grandson of Sir John A. MacDonald, but the event was deemed an accident.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))
-Klengenberg was a naturalized American and in 1925 he became a Canadian citizen. He retired to Vancouver where two of his daughters lived, and he died there in 1931.((“Christian Klengenberg.” //Wikipedia,// 2020 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Klengenberg.))