Ivujivik, Quebec

Ivujivik (or Notre Dame d'Ivugivic ), located at the northwest corner of the Ungava Peninsula, is the northernmost Inuit settlement of the Nunavik region, administrative region of Nord -du -Québec, about 2,000 kilometers from Montréal, and has about 300 inhabitants.

" Ivujivik " is an Inuktitut word meaning " place where strong currents accumulate ice " means and indicating that here meet the currents of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. On the Ungava plateau which crowns the surrounding Ivujivik cliffs, can be due to the harsh weather conditions hardly hold plants, and so can be found on the rocky tundra almost only different lichen species. The cliffs of about 30 kilometers northwest of Cape Wolstenholme located Ivujivik form one of the largest nesting ground for the thick-billed murres.

For about 4,000 years, people inhabit the land. The first Europeans aufkreuzende here was the Englishman Henry Hudson, who landed in 1610 upstream in search of the Northwest Passage to the Ivujivik Digges Islands and Cape Wolstenholme, named after one of the financial backers for his expedition. In search of trading opportunities landed in 1697 as the first Frenchman Captain Pierre LeMoyne D'Iberville on the Cape. 1909 established the Hudson 's Bay Company trading post at Cape Wolstenholme, but moved it in 1947 to the site of today's settlement Ivujivik, where in 1938 a Roman Catholic mission station was born. This mission, however, was abandoned in the 1960s. The people living in the region in their camps Inuit had seen no reason to settle in the immediate vicinity of the trading post and the mission station. Only after the Canadian government began to develop management activities in the 1960s, attracted increasingly, Inuit here. In 1967, she founded an association and opened its own " Co -op Store."

Together with the residents of Puvirnituq and 49 % of the population of Salluit refused the Inuit of Ivujivik 1975, to sign the agreement of the James Bay and Quebec North, with which the other Inuit of Nunavik certain land claims and rights acquired in return for the Provincial Government made it possible to carry out the ambitious James Bay hydroelectric project. They formed instead a separate community of interest ( " Inuit Tungavinga Nunamini ").

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