began to live in the community.

A Naval Radio Station, later Canadian Forces Station Inuvik was commissioned on 10 September 1963 after operations had been successfully transferred from NRS Aklavik. As a Canadian Forces Station, it was a communications research/signals intercept facility and part of the SUPRAD (Supplementary Radio) network.

Inuvik achieved village status in 1967 and became a full town in 1979 with an elected mayor and council. In 1979, with the completion of the Dempster Highway,

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