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Although the permanent cohabitation of Inuits and Crees at the mouth of the Grande Rivière de la Baleine only goes back to the year 1950, the two nations were rubbing shoulders in this area for a very long time; Inuit close to the coast and the Cree more in the interior lands. HISTORY It was in the middle of the eighteenth century when a Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post was built at the mouth of the Great Whale River called Fort Richmond. This was the beginning of a settlement also known as Poste-de-la-Baleine or Great Whale River. A protestant mission settled there in the 1880s. Yet it was not settled permanently, only used as a summer encampment. The American army opened a military base at the mouth of the Great Whale River during the Second World War, using Inuit and Cree workers. And in 1955 a Mid-Canada Line radar station was built at this place. Though the radar station was not operational for long and closed in 1965, it established the village permanently. EXTERNAL LINKS |