Whapmagoostui

See also: Whapmagoostui (homonymy)

Whapmagoostui ( river of the white whale in cry) is a municipality of Village cry of the administrative area of the North-of-Quebec, with the Quebec. It is only the Village cry Nunavik and it is located at the Embouchure Grande river of the Whale. This village of some 700 Cries is more Septentrional of the 9 villages cries of the Northern of Quebec, gathered in the Grand the Council of the Cries (Eeyou Istchee) and the regional Administration shouts.

Like several other entities Indigenous S, Whapmagoostui is made up of a reserved ground of 1-A category (see Whapmagoostui (reserved ground cry)), of federal Juridiction as well as village of 1-B category, of provincial jurisdiction.

The cumulated population of the two territories is entered on the territory of 1-A category.

The village is bordering with the Scandinavian Village on Kuujjuarapik, with a population of approximately 500 people, whose very great majority is inuite. With the 13 other Scandinavian villages of Nunavik, Kuujjuarapik belongs to the regional Administration Kativik. A small number of Inuits also live in the village cry of Chisasibi, to some 250 km in the south, the mouth of the Large River.

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 draft which it names Fort Richmond . It is the beginning of the permanent establishment which was going to become Station-of-the-Whale. A mission Protesting E 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 Inuits and the Cries 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

an excellent report presenting the city and its characteristic
Description of the village
Grand the Council of the Cries
Association Shouts of purveyance and tourism - Whapmagoostui

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