"In what is now Canada, first meetings for which there is a reasonably acceptable record began with the Norse about 1000 A.D. and continued as late as the second decade of the twentieth century, when members of the Canadian Arctic Expedition met isolated bands of Copper and Netsilik Inuit. ###>Autrement dit, des premiers contacts avec des Inuit ont eu lieu par intermittence sur une période de plus de 900 ans.