Kaipokok Bay

Kaipokok Bay belongs to the Labrador coast, where sheltered waters and river mouths supported communities whose lives followed the seasons of the northern sea. Inuit families used marine resources, while inland connections brought contact with other Indigenous peoples and different environments. Boats and winter routes linked camps and settlements, requiring knowledge of ice, weather and the behaviour of animals.

The bay was also a route used by Innu travelling between the interior and the coast. A French-Canadian trader established a post here in 1792, followed by another fur-trading post around 1830. Farther along the Labrador coast, Moravian missions became influential in parts of the Inuit world during the eighteenth century. These encounters added commercial and religious institutions to established Indigenous travel networks.