Taqpangajuk, Quebec
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Taqpangajuk was an attempted Inuit
resettlement located at Singer Inlet, 40 km southwest of Killinq
in Quebec
, northeastern Canada. The settlement was created in the 1980s as part of a relocation programme from Killinq. 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.
Inuit
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
resettlement located at Singer Inlet, 40 km southwest of Killinq
Killiniq, Nunavut
Killiniq is a former Inuit settlement, weather station, trading post, missionary post, fishing station, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police post on Killiniq Island...
in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, northeastern Canada. The settlement was created in the 1980s as part of a relocation programme from Killinq. 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.