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  • NIE Business Directory Project

    Makivik Corporation (Makivik) has undertaken to create a Nunavik Inuit Business Directory whereby Inuit JBNQA beneficiaries will be able to register their businesses. The primary objective of this web-based Directory will be to facilitate access of qualified Nunavik Inuit Businesses to contracts with the Canadian government as well as with other entities. More particularly, the Nunavik Inuit Enterprise (NIE) website will be used by Makivik to prepare (...)

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  • 14 newsletters available online!

    Please click here to access the Nunavik Newsletter index.

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  • Discussion Paper : Declaration of a Nunavik Government

    To all participants at the Nunavik Gouvernment meeting of November 15-18th 2011, sponsored by Makivik Corporation READ MORE

  • Iqqaumavara - I remember

    In the early 1950s, a dozen Inuit families from Inukjuak were deported to Grise Fjord and Resolute Bay by the Canadian government. They were put aboard the C.D. Howe ship with the promise of a better life, abundant game and fish and the possibility of coming back. But instead, hunger, cold and the glacial winter night awaited them in the Arctic. Abandoned and left to survive under the harshest climate on the planet, they were cut off from their loved ones for decades.

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  • Research Chair in Sustainable Development of the North

    The North holds tremendous economic, cultural, and symbolic potential, and its development has been a driver of Canada’s economy since the 1950s. Yet while northern resources have clearly benefited southern Canada...

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  • The premier of Québec, Jean Charest, the Minister responsible for Native Affairs, Geoffrey Kelley, and the president of the Makivik Corporation, Pita Aatami, were in Kangiqsualujjuaq today for the signing of an agreement through which Québec recognizes the effect that the historic slaughter of sled dogs (Qimmit) had on Inuit society and their way of life.

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  • Makivik Corporation is proud to announce that the Nunavik Youth Hockey Development Program (NYHDP) has been renewed for a sixth season. The program has once again received strong support from the Kativik Regional Government (KRG), the Kativik School Board (KSB) and the Makivik Corporation.

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  • Message from Makivik Corporation to Inuit, Beneficiaries of the James Bay and Northern Agreement and Members of the Makivik Corporation

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The Makivik Mandate

Makivik, which in Inuktitut means "To Rise Up," is a fitting name for an organization mandated to protect the rights, interests and financial compensation provided by the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the first comprehensive Inuit land claim in Canada, and the more recent offshore Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement that came into effect in 2008.
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Makivik Magazine

A banner on the front cover of each Makivik Magazine reads: "Serving the Inuit of Nunavik."
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Nunavik Research

The Nunavik Research Centre is operated by the Resource Development Department of Makivik Corporation in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik.

The Kids zone!

Visit our computer games zone!
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MAKIVIK CORPORATION

Kuujjuaq | Montreal | Quebec City
Head Office: Kuujjuaq
P.O. Box 179
Kuujjuaq, Quebec J0M 1C0
(819) 964.2925
1.877.625.4845
info@makivik.org

Inukjuak
J0M 1M0
Phone: 1-819-254-1173
Fax: 1-819-254-1040

Kuujjuaraapik
J0M 1G0
Phone: 1-819-929-3925
Fax:1-819-929-3982

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Montreal
1111 Dr. Frederik-Philips Blvd., 3rd Floor
St. Laurent, Quebec H4M 2X6
(514)745.8880
1.800.361.7052

Quebec City
555 Grande-Allée E.
Québec (Québec) G1R 2J5
(418) 522.2224

Corporate Objectives

  • To receive, administer, distribute and invest the compensation money payable to Nunavik Inuit, as provided for in the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement;
  • To relieve poverty, to promote the welfare, advancement, and education of the Inuit;
  • To foster, promote, protect and assist in preserving the Inuit way of life, values and traditions;
  • To exercise the functions vested in it by other Acts or the Agreement; and
  • To develop and improve the Inuit communities and to improve their means of actions.

    • Makivik Mandate

    Politically, culturally and economically, Makivik has been a leader in building and developing a vibrant region called Nunavik, where, between the dualistic nations of Canada and Quebec, Inuit have established our own distinct place and identity.

    Makivik, which in Inuktitut means “To Rise Up,” is a fitting name for an organization mandated to protect the rights, interests and financial compensation
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