Fort-Chimo, carrefour de l’est de l’Ungava

• Published in: Cahiers de géographie du Québec
• Main Author: Cartier, Yves
• Format: Text
• Language: French
• Published: Département de géographie de l'Université Laval 1964
• Subjects: Ungava Bay; Okak; Carrefour; Koksoak River; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/020527ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/020527ar

Fort Chimo is located on the left bank of the Koksoak river 30 miles from Ungava Bay. The Koksoak was first discovered in 1811 by Kohlmeister and Kmoch, Moravian missionaries from Okak on the Labrador Coast. In 1831, two Hudsons Bay traders, Nicol Finlayson and Erland Erlandson, established the orig...