Sivukutaitiarruvik

Sivukutaitiarruvik lies in southern James Bay, north-west of Rupert Bay. Known to English traders as Charlton Island, it offered a place for larger ships to transfer cargo destined for the shallow harbours of the bay. The navigator Thomas James spent the winter of 1631 here. In 1680 the Hudson's Bay Company established a depot, followed by a fort captured by the French in 1686. More than a century later, the rival North West Company built Fort St Andrews on the island, but abandoned it by 1806.