Alert, Nunavut

Alert
City in Canada
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Alert is a settlement on Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is the northernmost community in North America, owing its existence to an Arctic weather station and military base. Although it is not home to a Bahá’í community, individual Bahá’ís have visited and sent literature there.

In 1965, Bill Carr, a long-time pioneer to Thule, Greenland, travelled to Alert, "the northern-most point ever visited by a Bahá’í on the planet", to teach the Faith. While there, he donated Bahá’í literature to the local library. Later in 1976, a copy of the Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh was donated through the efforts of Eugene Smith, a Bahá’í from Faro, Yukon who had been travelling through the Arctic with a musical group.