Taqpangajuk was an attempted
Inuit
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resettlement located at
Singer Inlet
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, southwest of
Killiniq in
Quebec
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, northeastern Canada. The settlement was created in the 1980s as part of a relocation program from Killiniq. Its forecast population in 2010 was 432 people.
In the winter of 1987, several displaced Killiniq families established a new community at Taqpangajuk without government assistance. However, the settlement failed, because of a lack of services and education, making it too difficult.
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Former populated places in Quebec
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