The Name Banque Invik...
In Eskimo languages, the word for person or human is inu. Various Eskimo groups use inu in part of their names – such as inuit, Inuplak, inukit, inuttut, inuvialukton and inuiaqtun. Inuvik means the people’s place – or town. Inuvik can refer to any settlement, and it is also the name an arctic town in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Vik is a word that can be found around the world from to Alaska and is always associated with family, home or a place of dwelling.
In Old Norse vik refers to dwellings along a creek, bay or inlet and the people who lived there became known as Vikingar or Vikings.
