Hudson Bay

The western waters of Hudson Bay wash the low coast of the Kivalliq, where rivers descend from the inland tundra. Inuit families travelled between this coast and the interior, hunting caribou and fish along the rivers and seeking seals and other marine animals by the bay. The Paallirmiut also carried furs and ivory obtained farther north to trade with Hudson's Bay Company ships. In the eighteenth century the company sent small trading vessels north from Churchill to meet Inuit along the western shore.