Edmund Peck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Peck

Anglican missionary

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1850

Place of Birth: Rusholme, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1924

Profession: translator, anthropologist, linguist, lexicographer, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Edmund James Peck (April 15, 1850 – September 10, 1924), known in Inuktitut as Uqammaq (one who talks well), 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. His diaries provide an account of the daily life and work of the early missionaries in Baffin Island.
Peck conducted extensive research on Inuit oral traditions and presents several detailed verbatim accounts of shamanic traditions and practices.
His work contributes to the understanding of Inuit culture and history.
His ethnographic data was collected at the request of famed anthropologist Franz Boas in 1897.