Aillik

Aillik lies on the Labrador coast beside a sheltered bay whose head divides into two branches. Its Inuit name means “a place having sleeves”, a description of those branching waters; the offshore islands bear the same name. Archaeological finds indicate that Inuit used the site seasonally, possibly as early as 1500. Much older remains in the bay include longhouses of the Maritime Archaic people, who lived along this coast thousands of years before the Inuit arrived.