We developed a address the three primary goals of the study: profile of sport volunteers in four communities and sought to understand their motivations for 1. to gain a better understanding of sport volunteerism volunteering in sport, as well as the perceived barriers in small communities in the NWT; faced by non-sport volunteers. [...] Ulukhaktok (Holman Island) is the home of Canada and settled in the area of the Hay River of the Copper Inuit. [...] The average income in Ulukhaktok communities of the NWT in perspective, a literature (Holman) is 61.4% of the average income in the review was undertaken that examined volunteerism in Northwest Territories (Government of the Northwest general and volunteering in sport in particular. [...] The average income in volunteerism in development resulted from Wha Ti is 59.4% of the average income in the the plethora of activities, including efforts to Northwest Territories (Government of the Northwest measure the contributions of volunteers, in Territories, Bureau of Statistics, 2004d). [...] In the NWT, Little Canadian researchers carried out a study of (2001, p.11) notes that recreation coordinators are volunteerism in sport in order to understand the status becoming overextended due to a lack of volunteers to of volunteerism in sport and recreation in the province assist them:4 of Ontario.