The Belcher Islands are an isolated group of islands in Hudson Bay, Canada. Due to its remote

location, the Inuit who lived there were seldom influenced by the society of the mainland,

especially in the early 1900s. Generally, they lived in peace, hunting to survive through the

harsh winters, but when missionaries brought the Bible to the Inuit in 1925, two men took it upon

themselves to declare they were God and Jesus. The men claimed that their bodies had been taken

over by the deity and his son as a means of returning to earth. Unfortunately, they hadn't returned

with a message of peace. This is Monsters.

The First Time Canadian Law made its way to the Belcher Islands was in 1920. Canada was still a

relatively young country at the time, so the native Inuit and many remote regions were still

governing themselves. The Belcher Islands had stayed especially off the government's radar because

they were hard to get to. The Belchers are located in Hudson Bay and many of the ships that ventured

there in the summer had trouble landing on the rocky island. During the winter, the islands were

only accessible by taking dog teams across the frozen sea ice, but it was easy to get lost or even

hit a crack in the ice and fall into the water. The islands had only been formally charted in 1915

when famous filmmaker and prospector Robert Fliarty crashed his ship on the rocky shores.

Fliarty and his crew spent nearly a year there exploring the islands and filming the Indigenous

population. Robert Fliarty is perhaps best known for his docked drama The Nook of the North,

which depicted a somewhat fictionalized story of an Inuit family struggling to survive in the Arctic.

The film has since been condemned as being somewhat racist and inaccurate, but at the time the

movie was the first major introduction for many in the Western world to Inuit culture. Fliarty's

gear on the Belchers was what had inspired him to make the movie and he'd even filmed a young man

named Peter Salah driving a sled dog team who would grow up to become one of the leaders on the

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