In the '60s or '70s, the Canadian government actually forced a large group of native people to move from their native lands in Nunavik (northern Quebec) to the far north, where nobody or nothing lived, except seals and fish. I believe this was so that the Canada could claim that they had sovereignty over the Arctic because people lived there, unlike Antarctica. Imagine being dumped on a frozen wasteland thousands of km from civilisation with a few supplies and being told to deal with it, with no recourse. Many people died.