Kaipokok

Kaipokok lies on the Labrador coast near the head of the bay of the same name, an inlet about 56 kilometres long that runs inland from the North Atlantic. Inuit travelling from the Hopedale area came here for salmon and trade, and the Innu used the bay as a route between the coast and the interior.

In about 1792 the French-Canadian trader Pierre Marcoux, also called Makko, set up a post on the bay. He preached to the Innu as well as trading, and had left the area by the early 1800s. The Inuit visitors were drawn in part by the fresh bread from a trader's baking oven. In 1837 the Hudson's Bay Company bought a property at Kaipokok, 53 kilometres from the head of the bay, and ran a trading post and a salmon fishery there.