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In memory of:

Special Constable Andrew Ooyoumut

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: S/9161
Age: 39
Rank: Special Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: Baker Lake, North West Territories
Enlistment: June 1, 1946
Death: July 21, 1954 Kikatavyuk River
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S/Cst. Ooyoumut was hired as an Inuit special constable in Baker Lake, Northwest Territories (now known as Nunavut) He was a skilled hunter,traveler interpreter, and guide. S/Cst. Ooyoumut drowned in the Kikatavyuk River, Nunavut, (formerly known as Northwest Territories, while on special duty.

He was married to Rhoda and they had four children.

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Page 227 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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