The Nunavik Region of Quebec, Canada

Nunavik (ᓄᓇᕕᒃ) is a region making up the northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada. Covering an area of approximately 660 000 km², north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the Inuit in Quebec. About 9200 Inuit live in Nunavik, as well as 900 non-Inuit. Download high resolution version (676x800, 70 KB)www. ... Download high resolution version (676x800, 70 KB)www. ... A region can be any area that has some unifying feature. ... North is one of the four primary cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction and used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions. ... In music, see the following intervals: Major third Minor third The mediant, and the chord built on the mediant, is often called simply the third, as it is the third degree of the diatonic scale. ... This article is about political regions. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... The term Parallel has a number of important meanings: Parallel (geometry) occurs in geometry. ... Inuit woman Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ...

The name is Inuktitut and means "place to live." Inhabitants of Nunavik are called Nunavimmiut. As part of an act passed by the Parliament of Canada in 1912, without the agreement of the Nunavik peoples, the Federally administered area was made part of Quebec. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The Parliament of Canada (in French: le Parlement du Canada) is Canadas legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. ...

The principal town in Nunavik is Kuujjuaq; other settlements include Inukjuaq (where the film Nanook of the North was shot), Salluit, Povungnituk, and Kangiqsualujjuaq. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Kuujjuaq is the principal settlement in Nunavik. ... Nanook of the North is a documentary motion picture by Robert J. Flaherty. ... Kangiqsualujjuaq (ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᔾᔪᐊᖅ in Inuktitut syllabics; also Kangirsualujjuaq ᑲᖏᕐᓱᐊᓗᔾᔪᐊᖅ) is an Inuit village with a population of approximately 620, located on the east coast of Ungava Bay at the mouth of the George River, in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. ...

Nunavik is separated from Nunavut Territory by the Hudson Strait. The Ungava Peninsula and Ungava Bay are in Nunavik, which forms the northern two-thirds of the region of Nord-du-Québec. For the electoral district of the same name, see Nunavut (electoral district). ... Hudson Strait is a strait connecting Hudson Bay to the Atlantic Ocean, running in an west-east direction. ... The Ungava Peninsula in northernmost Quebec is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east. ... Ungava Bay is a large bay in northeastern Canada separating Nunavik (far northern Québec) from Baffin Island. ... The Nord-du-Québec is the largest of the 17 regions of the province of Quebec in Canada. ...

There are no road links between Nunavik and southern Quebec; the only year-round link is by air, and there is seasonal shipping in the summer and autumn. This page is related to transport; you may be looking for the 2002 Bollywood movie Road. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about divisions of a year. ... A ship is a large, usually decked watercraft. ... Summer is one of the four temperate seasons. ... Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England. ...

Under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1978, the Makivik Corporation, headquartered in Kuujjuaq is authorised to represent the Inuit of Nunavik. They are seeking self-government for the region, and have negotiated a number of claims on resource development. James Bay is a large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. ... Events January January 1 - The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. ... Headquarters denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are concentrated. ... For the direction right, see left and right or starboard. ...

External links

• Nunavik Atlas (http://www.makivik.org/nunavikatlas/)
• Makivik Corporation (http://www.makivik.org/)