Lake Caniapiscau

Lake Caniapiscau lies in the northern interior of the Labrador peninsula, among the headwaters of the river that flows towards Ungava Bay. Hunters and fur traders travelled through this lake country, part of a wider homeland where Naskapi people relied above all on caribou. In 1834 the Hudson's Bay Company opened an outpost at the lake to connect its establishments around James Bay with those on Ungava Bay, extending a trade route across the peninsula.