Kuujjuaq
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Kuujjuaq (; or ), is a former Hudson's Bay Company outpost at the mouth of the Koksoak River on Ungava Bay that has become the largest northern village (Inuit community) in the Nunavik region of Quebec, Canada. It is the administrative capital of the Kativik Regional Government. Its population was 2,668 as of the 2021 census.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kuujjuaq
- Settlement.native_name
- ᑰᑦᔪᐊᖅ
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ike
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Northern village municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kuujjuaq1.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kuujjuaq
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Canada Quebec#Canada
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 197
- Settlement.coor_pinpoint
- Hôtel de ville Katittavik, 400, chemin de l'Aéroport
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Quebec
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Nord-du-QuébecNunavik
- Settlement.subdivision_type5
- TE
- Settlement.subdivision_name5
- Kativik
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- ᑰᔾᔪᐊᖅ
- Demonym
- Kuujjuamiuq
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Kativik Regional Government
- Population
- 2668
- Area
- 385.70
- Elevation
- 16
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Kativik Regional Government
- Official website
- www.nvkuujjuaq.ca
- Image
- Kuujjuaq1.JPG
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- Kuujjuaq
- inception
- 1979-12-29
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Kuujjuaq (; or ), is a former Hudson's Bay Company outpost at the mouth of the Koksoak River on Ungava Bay that has become the largest northern village (Inuit community) in the Nunavik region of Quebec, Canada. It is the administrative capital of the Kativik Regional Government. Its population was 2,668 as of the 2021 census.
==Names== Kuujjuaq was founded as Fort Good Hope in 1830 but in 1831 changed its name to Fort Chimo, an anglicization of an Inuit word , meaning "Let's shake hands" and also likely to avoid confusion with Fort Good Hope operated by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in the Northwest Territories. As this was a common greeting locals used with the HBC fur traders, they adopted it as the name of their trading post. A fictional account of this naming is given in the 1857 novel Ungava by R. M. Ballantyne, where it is taken from a girl character's beloved dog. On 5 February 1980, the name was changed to Kuujjuaq, the Inuit name for the Koksoak River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kuujjuaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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