Inukjuaq
| Inukjuaq | |||
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| Location in Quebec | |||
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| Province : | Quebec | ||
| Administrative region : | North du Quebec | ||
| MRC or equivalent : | Nunavik | ||
| Coordinates : | 58 ° 28 ′ N , 78 ° 7 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 55.63 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1597 (as of: 2006) | ||
| Population density : | 28.7 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | J0M | ||
| Website : | www.nvinukjuak.ca | ||
With around 1,600 inhabitants, Inukjuaq is the second largest Inuit settlement in the Nunavik region , administrative region of North du Québec . This Inuktitut name means "great man" (giant). The place is on the east coast of the Hudson Bay on the north bank of the estuary of the river Rivière Innuksuac .
Many relics have been found along the Innuksuac River that indicate a settlement that dates back several millennia.
At the beginning of the 20th century, when a geological research camp was located here and the French fur trading company Révillon Frères set up a trading post in 1902, the area around the present-day settlement was initially called Port Harrison. In 1920 the Hudson's Bay Company also established a trading post. The competition between the two companies lasted until 1936. Then the Hudsonbai company bought Révillon Frères and thus won a monopoly that was finally broken when an Inuit cooperative opened a supermarket in 1962.
In 1927 the Anglican Church established a mission station. A post office and a police station were established in 1935, an infirmary in 1947 and finally a school in 1951. In 1953 the Canadian federal government relocated several families against their will over 1000 kilometers to the north in the towns of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord in order to fly the flag in the High Arctic. It was not until 1996 that the state granted the families affected financial compensation for the inconvenience.
Inuit art plays an important economic role for Inukjuaq . Artists like Levi Amidlak (* 1931), Jimmy Inaruli Arnamissak (* 1946), Elisapee Inukpuk (* 1938), Johnny Inukpuk (1911–2007) have a good reputation with collectors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Community Profiles from 2006 Census , Statistics Canada (English), accessed March 15, 2011