Kuujjuarapik

Kuujjuarapik lies at the mouth of the Great Whale River on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay. Its Inuit name means “little great river”; the Cree name Whapmagoostui refers to the belugas found in these waters. Inuit and Cree hunters travelled through the surrounding country, making camps along the coast and rivers. In 1820 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post at the river mouth, where it traded furs and processed products of the whale hunt.