Kuujjuarapik, Quebec
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Kuujjuarapik ᑰᔾᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ |
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| Northern village municipality | |
Partial view of the village, as seen from the hills to the east
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 Kuujjuarapik
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| Coordinates (412, avenue Saint-Edmund): 55°16′30″N 77°45′30″W / 55.275°N 77.7583°WCoordinates: 55°16′30″N 77°45′30″W / 55.275°N 77.7583°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Nord-du-Québec |
| TE | Kativik |
| Settled | 1821 (HBC post) |
| Constituted | 7 June 1980 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Luke Inukpuk |
| • Federal riding | Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou |
| • Prov. riding | Ungava |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.00 km2 (2.70 sq mi) |
| • Land | 8.16 km2 (3.15 sq mi) |
| There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources | |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 657 |
| • Density | 80.5/km2 (208/sq mi) |
| • Change (2006–11) |
 15.7% |
| • Dwellings | 204 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal code(s) | J0M 1G0 |
| Area code(s) | 819 |
Kuujjuarapik (also spelled Kuujjuaraapik; Inuktitut: ᑰᔾᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ small great river) is the southernmost northern village (Inuit community) at the mouth of the Great Whale River (French: Grande Rivière de la Baleine) on the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. About 800 people, mostly Cree, live in the adjacent village of Whapmagoostui. The community is only accessible by air (Kuujjuarapik Airport) and, in late summer, by boat. The nearest Inuit village is Umiujaq, about 160 kilometres (99 mi) north-northwest of Kuujjuarapik.
Like most other northern villages in Quebec, there is an Inuit reserved land of the same name, Kuujjuarapik. However, unlike most other Inuit reserved lands, the Inuit reserved land of Kuujjuarapik is not adjacent to its eponymous northern village; rather, it is located considerably farther north and in fact borders on the Inuit reserved land of Umiujaq.
Although the permanent cohabitation of Inuit and Crees at the mouth of the Great Whale River only goes back to the year 1950, the two nations were rubbing shoulders in this area for a very long time; Inuit close to the coast and the Crees more in the interior lands.
While the Inuit have hunted and fished along the Hudson Bay coast long before the arrival of Europeans, it was not until 1820 when a Hudson's Bay Company trading post was built there, known variously as Great Whale River House, Great Whale River or just Great Whale. On maps of 1851 and 1854, the post is called Whale River House and Whale House.
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