Like its sister community, Umingmaktok, schooling is provided by flying the students to Cambridge Bay and returning them for Christmas and the summer.

There was little outside contact until on 27 August 1925, when the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) set up an outpost on Banks Peninsula, to the north of the present location.

[8] In 1964, the Hudson's Bay Company abandoned the site and moved to Umingmaktok,[7] while the Inuit decided to remain in the area and continued the traditional lifestyle.

Warner, along with his wife Trish, purchased both the Catholic mission house and the HBC post which they turned into the "Bathurst Inlet Lodge".

[10] The lodge is a popular destination for tourists who wish to see a more traditional type Inuit lifestyle and wildlife such as foxes, seals, barren-ground caribou, Arctic char and muskox.

Vashon, Dr. Rosalie Garcia, and Dr. Carl Smith visited Bathurst Inlet and the surrounding areas in 1993 to study the Casimir effect.

"[19] According to Environment and Natural Resources (ENR), "The Bathurst Herd are barren-ground caribou, a key northern species.

They have shaped the cultural identity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples over millennia through mutual relationships built on respect."