Kangirsuk, Quebec

Kangirsuk (literally, " The Cove", formerly Payne Bay ) is a in the region of Nunavik, administrative region of Nord -du -Québec, on the north shore of the Payne Bay, the estuary of Rivière Arnaud, 13 kilometers away from the Ungava Bay, situated Inuit settlement with about 500 inhabitants.

Like almost all settlements in northern Quebec also Kangirsuk has developed in the environment of a trading post. In 1921, the French fur trading company Révillon Frères had first built an office that made the Hudson 's Bay Company competition four years later. In 1959, following the introduction of compulsory education for Inuit children opened a public school in their wake more and more Inuit families in the developing settlement now settled permanently. Other government measures such as health, housing and social facilities promoted in 1961 this development process. 1965 was added in an Anglican mission station with church, and the following year opened the Inuit a cooperative sale of goods shop. In the rank of a municipality Kangirsuk 1981 was raised.