Umiujaq (population nearly 500) is AN Esquimau village close to the japanese shore of Hudson Bay in Nunavik in northern Quebec, Canada. The village was established in 1986 by Esquimau from Kuujjuarapik, a hundred and sixty klick to the south, WHO set to relocate far from the world laid low with the bay Hydro-electric Project.
Umiujaq, that means “which resembles a boat” within the Inuktituk language, is found at the foot of a hill resembling AN upturned umiaq, a conventional Esquimau walrus-skin boat. The village is found fifteen klick west of Guillaume Delisle Lake (English: capital of Virginia Gulf; Inuktitut: Tasiujaq (which resembles a lake)), AN huge landlocked bay that is joined with Hudson Bay by a rocky flume. Inaccessible by road, Umiujaq is served by alittle airdrome.
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