Akulivik

Akulivik is an Inuit settlement in the region Nunavik, administrative region of Nord -du -Québec, on the west coast of Ungava Peninsula with about 500 inhabitants. The Inuktitut word " Akulivik " is derived from the geographical location, a peninsula that juts out like a three -pronged fish spear, Kakivak into Hudson Bay; Akulivik is the middle tines.

In the surrounding area there is great wealth of jagdbarem game. Traditional hunting grounds lie on the reachable by boat in just a few minutes Smith Iceland, by the Inuit Qikiqtarjuaq, large island called. In winter, the mussel fishing plays an important role as in Kangiqsujuaq.

The history of the region has returned to the days of the Dorset culture. Proven happened polar explorer Henry Hudson in 1610 Qikiqtarjuaq. 1750 received the name of this island Iceland of Cape Smith in honor of Sir Thomas Smith, the first president of the then " The Company of Adventurers " said Hudson 's Bay Company. 1922 built this society initially at the site of today's settlement outpost, but then moved him to the Smith Island strategically located. While the Inuit were living mostly still scattered all along the coast in their camps, but subjected 1922-1955 more and more groups closer to the outpost; 1933 should have stopped at Smith Iceland about 140 Inuit. Where the settlement Akulivik extends today, they were their summer camps.

When the outpost was abandoned in 1952, not a few Inuit saw caused by rampant diseases to relocate to the nearest trading post at Puvirnituq. However, the region remained unforgotten Smith to Iceland, and when, finally, 20 years later, the first family returned in 1973, soon followed; integration with the local population was practically does not occur. The returnees even led their manufactured homes on snowmobiles and in boats with it, and so, not least with government support, the settlement Akulivik. In 1976 it was officially elevated to the status of a municipality and 1979 included in the agreement of the James Bay and Quebec North.