This is the list of communities in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

that have the legal status of northern village (''village nordique'', code=VN) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and the ''Act respecting Northern villages and the Kativik Regional Government'' legislation. A "northern village" is an

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 ...

community; these are all located north of the 55th parallel in the territory administered by the

Kativik Regional Government The Kativik Regional Government (french: Administration régionale Kativik, KGR) encompasses most of the Nunavik region of Quebec. Nunavik is the northern half of the Nord-du-Québec administrative region and includes all the territory north of ...

. These have a separate legal status from

Cree The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...

villages (code=VC),

Naskapi The Naskapi (Nascapi, Naskapee, Nascapee) are an Indigenous people of the Subarctic native to the historical country St'aschinuw (ᒋᑦ ᐊᔅᒋᓄᐤ, meaning 'our nclusiveland'), which is located in northern Quebec and Labrador, neighb ...

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''). These are separate territories that are located near the northern village of the same name, and are for the exclusive use of Inuit for various hunting, fishing, and other economic activities. The Canada 2011 Census and the

2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

before it show that all of these Inuit reserved lands have no resident population.

Northern villages and Inuit reserved lands

Other

Some apparently outdated sources show the following as Inuit reserved lands: * Kiggaluk, with geographic code 99875, adjacent to the Cree village of

Chisasibi Chisasibi ( cr, ᒋᓵᓰᐲ, translit=Cisâsîpî; meaning Great River) is a village on the eastern shore of James Bay, in the Eeyou Istchee equivalent territory (ET) in northern Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the south shore of La Grande R ...

(this is below the 55th parallel and therefore outside the territory of the Kativik Regional Government) * Killiniq, with geographic code 99896 (not to be confused with the abandoned town of

Killiniq, Nunavut Killiniq (meaning: ''ice floes'', iu, ᑭᓪᓕᓂᖅ) (previous spelling: Killinek; local variants: Killipaartalik or Kikkertaujak (''peninsula''); previously: Bishop Jones' Village; sometimes referred to as: Port Burwell) is a former Inuit se ...

Killiniq Island Killiniq Island (English: ''ice floes'') is a remote island in southeastern Nunavut and northern Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Located at the extreme northern tip of Labrador between Ungava Bay and the Labrador Sea, it is notable in that it ...

, about further north) Neither of these is currently listed in the ''Répertoire des municipalités'' of the ''Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire'', nor have they appeared in the Canadian censuses at least as far back as the 2001 census.

External links

Nunivaat.org Census profile 2021

MAMROT Répertoire des municipalités

(also in ttp://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=2&file=/V_6_1/V6_1.htm French

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{{Subdivisions of Quebec

Village municipalities North villages and Inuit

Northern villages and Inuit reserved lands

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