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These have a separate legal status from Cree villages (code=VC), Naskapi villages (code=VK), or ordinary villages (code=VL). Note that most (all but two) northern villages have a counterpart Inuit reserved land of the same name (code=TI, terre de catégorie 1 pour les Inuits or Terre de la catégorie I pour les Inuits or Terre réservée inuite ...
Nunavik has fourteen villages, the vast majority of whose residents are Inuit. [14] The principal village and administrative centre in Nunavik is Kuujjuaq, on the southern shore of Ungava Bay; the other villages are Inukjuak (where the film Nanook of the North was shot), Salluit, Puvirnituq, Ivujivik, Kangiqsujuaq, Kangiqsualujjuaq, Kangirsuk ...
politician who was a member of the Senate of Canada: Johnny Ned Adams [5] [6] 1960: Fort Chimo: QC: pilot, a businessman and a former mayor of the village of Kuujjuaq: Susan Aglukark [7] [8] 27 January 1967: Churchill: MB: musician Leona Aglukkaq [9] 28 June 1967: Inuvik: NT: politician, Minister of Health and Minister of Environment: Olayuk ...
Kangiqsualujjuaq (/ k æ n ˌ dʒ ɪ k s u ˈ æ l uː dʒ u æ k /; French: [kɑ̃dʒiksɥalydʒɥak]) [4] is an Inuit village located at the mouth of the George River on the east coast of Ungava Bay in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. Its population was 956 as of the 2021 census.
In 1930, a newsman in The Pas, Manitoba reported on a small Inuit village right off of Lake Angikuni. The village had always welcomed the fur trappers who passed through occasionally. However, in 1930, Joe Labelle, a fur trapper well known in the village, found that all the villagers had gone.
On December 1, 2005, Nain became the administrative capital [17] of the autonomous region of Nunatsiavut which is the name chosen by the Labrador Inuit when the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act was successfully ratified by the Canadian Government and the Inuit of Labrador. [18] Hopedale, further south, is the legislative capital. [19]
This category is for communities in Quebec that have the legal status of northern villages (village nordique, code=VN) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. These are Inuit communities north of the 55th parallel.
This list of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as Indigenous Peoples. When possible, the original word or phrase used by Indigenous Peoples is included, along with its generally believed meaning.