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 English-Inuktitut dictionary.
Christian feast day: Edmund James Peck (Anglican Church of Canada)
On September 10, in the year 0, Christian feast day: Edmund James Peck (Anglican Church of Canada). This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of September 10, one of 439 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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