Qingaaluk

Qingaaluk rises among the hills of the eastern Hudson Bay country, north of the great inlet of Tasiujaq. Inuit and Cree ancestors occupied this region long before European traders came to its shores. In 1750 the Hudson's Bay Company built Fort Richmond on an island near the southern side of the inlet, hoping to draw trade from both peoples. The post closed in 1759, leaving the surrounding coast and lakes to continue as places of Indigenous hunting and travel.