Lake Petitsikapau

Lake Petitsikapau lies deep in the interior of Labrador, within a vast country of lakes and rivers. Its shores were a meeting place for Indigenous people who hunted and travelled across the peninsula. Naskapi families followed caribou through a territory extending from the shores of Ungava Bay to the Labrador coast. In 1831 the establishment of a Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Chimo to the north brought regular trade into their country, adding another destination to the long routes across the interior.