Kuujjuarapik

Kuujjuarapik ( small large river in Inuktitut) is a Scandinavian Village Nunavik, with the Quebec (Canada), located at the mouth of the Grande river of the Whale. The very great majority of these 500 inhabitants are Inuits. It is southernmost of the 14 Scandinavian villages of Nunavik belonging to the regional Administration Kativik.

The village is bordering with the Village cry on Whapmagoostui which belongs to the regional Administration shouts and of the Grand the Council of the Cries (Eeyou Istchee), with the eight villages cries of the area of the Bay-James.

Kuujjuarapik is also the name of a reserved ground inuit of the Quebec. The twinned villages were created under the terms of the Convention of the Bay-James and Québécois North of 1975. Until the years 1980, the village was known by the names of Station-of-the-Whale and Great Whale River . A research station of the Center of Scandinavian studies of the Université Laval is in the village since the Années 1960.

History

In the middle of the 18th century, the Compagnie of Hudson Bay establishes a station of Traite furs which it names Fort Richmond . It is the beginning of the permanent establishment which was going to become Station-of-the-Whale. A Protestant mission settles there in the Années 1880.

The American army opened a military base at this place during the Second world war and it employed workers inuits and cries. In 1955, a station of radar was built within the framework of the defense system air canado-American, the Mid-Canada Line , a few years before the creation of NORAD.

Although the permanent cohabitation of the Cries and Inuits to the mouth of the Large river of the Whale goes back only to the years 1950, the two nations were côtoyaient for a very long time in this area, Inuits close to the coast and the Cries on the grounds of the interior. Until 1950, the site was a camping of summer.

Municipalities bordering

Sources

Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
Commission of toponymy of Quebec
municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bonds

tourisque Association of Nunavik - Kuujjuarapik
Localization of the Scandinavian villages of Nunavik
Research station of Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik
an excellent report presenting the city and its characteristic

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