The Cape Hope Islands are an uninhabited

Canadian arctic islands The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark). Situated in the northern extremity of ...

group located within the midsection of

James Bay James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost pa ...

in Nunavut, Canada. They are situated south of Vieux-Comptoir (Old Factory).

History

The

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

who lived on the Cape Hope Islands in the 1930s were transferred by the government to

Great Whale River The Great Whale River () is a river in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. It flows from Lac Saint-Luson through Lac Bienville west to Hudson Bay. While lower section of the river (after Lac Bienville) has very powerful current, with many waterfalls (up to ...

in 1960. They now live in

Kuujjuarapik, Quebec Kuujjuarapik (also spelled Kuujjuaraapik; iu, ᑰᔾᔪᐊᕌᐱᒃ ''little 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 ...

, and there is no longer a permanent settlement on the Cape Hope Islands.

Notable people

Mini Aodla Freeman Mini Aodla Freeman is an Inuk playwright, writer, poet and essayist. She was born in July 1936 on Cape Hope Island (Nunaaluk) in James Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), Canada. Mini Aodla was taken by the authorities to Bishop Hor ...

, publisher, author, producer, was born on the Cape Hope Islands.

References

Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region Islands of James Bay Archipelagoes of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub