Kangiqsujuaq ( iu, ᑲᖏᕐᓱᔪᐊᖅ) is a northern village ( Inuit community) in

Nunavik Nunavik (; ; iu, ᓄᓇᕕᒃ) comprises the northern third of the province of Quebec, part of the Nord-du-Québec region and nearly coterminous with Kativik. Covering a land area of north of the 55th parallel, it is the homeland of the I ...

, Nord-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 837 in the

Canada 2021 Census The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

. The community has also been known as Wakeham Bay. The name "Kangiqsujuaq" means "the large

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" in

Inuktitut Inuktitut (; , syllabics ; from , "person" + , "like", "in the manner of"), also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line, including parts of the provinces o ...

. It is located on the Ungava Peninsula, on the Cap du Prince-de-Galles on the Hudson Strait. It is served by the small Kangiqsujuaq Airport. During winter, when the tides are extremely low, local Inuit sometimes climb beneath the shifting sea ice to gather blue mussels. They break holes in the ice and then can walk for a short time on the exposed sea bed and collect this food. This risky way of gathering the mussels goes back for generations. As the other villages of the Kativik region, the Kativik Regional Police Force provides police services in Kangiqsujuaq. Kangiqsujuaq is the closest community to the Qajartalik archaeological site, a site featuring petroglyphs created by the Dorset culture. In 2017, it was announced that the Qajartalik would be added to Canada's tentative list for nomination to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. Revillon Freres Kangiqsujuaq 1909

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Kangiqsujuaq had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Education

The Kativik School Board operates the Arsaniq School.Our Schools
" Kativik School Board. Retrieved on September 23, 2017.

References

External links

Official Site (English version)

the Weather Permits'', a documentary about life in Kangiqsujuaq.
Inuit communities in Quebec Road-inaccessible communities of Quebec {{Quebec-geo-stub