Ungava

[< Esk.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the general area lying between Northern Labrador and Hudson Bay; specifically, the peninsula lying between the Bay and Ungava Bay.

Quotations

1819-1835

. . . the Ungava mountaineers would have no objection to attach themselves to this post.

1952

Ungava, in Eskimo, means "Far Away," and it is the far away lands across the top of Canada that attract this country's new pioneers.

1965

Conditions are even worse now than in the early '50s, when there was heavy air traffic to the DEW Line, Ungava and other regions.