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Whapmagoostui |
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Whapmagoostui |
Cree Nation of Whapmagoostui |
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Pronunciation |
Waup-mag-stoo-ee or Waup-ma-GOO-stoo-ee |
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Population |
720 |
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Location |
Mouth of the Great Whale River |
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Other Names |
Great Whale Poste de la Baleine Bay de la Poste |
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The name means "place of the beluga." It is the northernmost Cree community in Quebec and the last remaining Cree community without road access. This Cree community shares the same location as the Inuit community of Kuujjuaraapik. It was founded around a Hudson's Bay Company post. The community later became the site of a military airport, now abandoned. Traditional family hunting territories extended up the Great Whale, Little Whale and Nastapoka watersheds. The last Cree community without road access. More. |
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Inuit Community in Nunavik Homeland |
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Pronunciation |
Koo-joo-ar-a-pik |
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Population |
579 |
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Location |
Mouth of the Great Whale River |
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Other Names |
Great Whale, Great Whale River, Poste de la Baleine, Baie de la Poste |
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It is the southernmost Inuit community in Quebec and part of the Inuit alliance of Quebec that calls its northern homeland Nunavik, Quebec north of the 55th parallel. This Inuit community shares the same location as the Cree community of Whapmagoostui. Traditional hunting territories did not extend far inland from the Bay. |
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Left, Cree walking out ceremony with mother and son at Whapmagoostui.
Right, Billy Weetaltuk in the Great Whale Canoe Factory.
Photos: Brian Back |
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Inuit Community in Nunavik Homeland |
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Pronunciation |
Oo-me-oo-yak or Oo-mer-ak |
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Population |
315 |
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Location |
Peninsula between Richmond Gulf and Hudson Bay |
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Other Names |
None |
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Founded in 1986 by former residents of Kuujjuaraapik, Umiujaq is part of the Inuit alliance of Quebec that calls its homeland Nunavik. The 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (co-signed with the Cree, Quebec, Hydro Quebec and Canada) gave the Kuujjuaraapik Inuit the right to a community at Richmond Gulf. Not until a 1983 vote was a decision made to build it. Umiujaq is located at the very northern limit of Cree travel. Sources: Grand Council of the Crees, National Atlas of Canada, Kiluutaq Primary School (Umiujaq) Web site , Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Canadian Geographic, James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, Cree Cultural Institute |
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Three Inuit boys
on the shore of Hudson Bay among the winter fishing huts at Umiujaq.
Photo: Reed Ryan |
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