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Bernard Harbour (Inuit languages: Nulahugiuq)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a bay on the mainland of Nunavut, Canada. It is situated on Dolphin and Union Strait, southwest of Sutton Island. The closest inhabited community is Kugluktuk, about south of Bernard Harbour.
At one time, it was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company trading post. It is also a former Distant Early Warning Line (PIN-C) and current North Warning System site. As of August 2004, there were several abandoned structures remaining at the site.
The butterfly Colias johanseni is found in the area.
The harbour is well sheltered and can accommodate ships up to in draught.
In 1916, a few weeks after the CAE had left, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) opened a fur trade post on Bernard Harbour, originally called Fort Bacon, after Fur Trade Commissioner N.H. Bacon. When James Thomson became commissioner in 1920, the post was renamed to Fort Thomson. Circa 1925, it became known as Bernard Harbour. In 1930, the Hudson's Bay Company vessel Aklavik over-wintered at Bernard Harbour, where she sank, but was refloated and repaired. In 1931, an outpost was built on Read Island (also spelled Reid Island) on the opposite side of Dolphin and Union Strait, and the following year, all operations were moved to Read Island and the Bernard Harbour post closed.
In 1957, a DEW Intermediate site was established at Bernard Harbour, designated "PIN-C". It was an expansive facility with airstrip and dock facility for resupplying. It was closed and site abandoned in 1963. In September 1991, it reopened as an unattended NWS Short Range Radar site southwest of the former DEW site.
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