The Canadian Government wanted to send the Inuit two thousand kilometers north into the high Arctic so they could claim the land as their own.
In the 1950's, with the Cold War going on between Russia and America, the Canadian Government was scared one of them would try take their Arctic land. They decided to send up around 50 Inuit to the High Arctic so that Canadian citizens would be living on the land, and so they could claim it as their own. They sent them up there, and they were quite mad. They had to adjust to new ways of hunting and eating, finding new ways to build homes, trying to adapt to the freezing Arctic, etc. In the 1980-90's, the Inuit wanted an apology and compensation monry, while the government went, 'Hey now, this was completely voluntary so you could not be dependant on us, and because of all the social and economic problems from where you came from!' A lot of arguing later, and in 1996 the Inuit won $10M CAD in a trust fund. In 2010, the government finally apologised.
This really just had negative consequences for both sides. I can get where the government was coming from; They wanted to expand their sovereignty onto the other islands and try claim them, but in doing so, the Inuit faced hardships, and the government lost ten million dollars.
The Europeans thought that the Mission stations would help both cultures by preventing fights.
After seeing an increasing amount of fights and arguments going on between the two cultures, the Newfoundland and Labrador Governor decided to create mission stations in the area. He saw the Moravian success with the Greenland people, and asked them to establish some over in his governing area. They agreed, and set up one in 1771. Then some more. In 1896, they finally had 5, and that was the last one they would make. Soon after they were set up, the fighting between the groups stopped, but they sort of isolated the Inuit from the Europeans; They didn't allow them on the mission grounds. Sometimes up to 300 people would live in the missions in winter. Then, the Moravian started to conduct trade operations, religious, educational, and medical services, and tried to preserve the Inuit ways of life, while still modernizing them. They taught them Christian practices and ideals too, but this took away parts of the Inuit belief. They also indirectly encouraged families to stop nomadic practices and move semi-permanently to somewhere near the mission camps.
This really had both positive and negative consequences, mainly positive. It stopped the fighting, allowed the Inuit to still trade, and gave them educational and medical services, they tried to preserve their old Inuit lifestyle, yet they also pushed their religion onto them and eroded their belief system.