District of Ungava

District of Ungava, 1898-1912, superimposed over a modern day map of Canada

The District of Ungava was a regional administrative district of Canada's Northwest Territories from 1895 to 1912. It covered the northern portion of what is today Quebec, the interior of Labrador and the offshore islands to the west and north, which are now part of the Nunavut.

The continental areas of the District of Ungava were transferred by the Parliament of Canada with the adoption of the Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898 and the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912. This territory is now part of the administrative regions Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord; the offshore islands of the District of Ungava remained part of the Northwest Territories until the creation of Nunavut in 1999.

In 1927, the long-standing dispute over the location of the boundary between Labrador (a dependency of the Dominion of Newfoundland) and the former District of Ungava (by then part of Quebec) was taken to the arbitration of the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ruled in favour of Newfoundland.

See also

• Ungava Bay

Further reading

• Ballantyne, R. M. Ungava, A Tale of Esquimaux Land. London: J.M. Dent, 1908.
• Bergerud, A. T., Stuart N. Luttich, and Lodewijk Camps. The Return of Caribou to Ungava. McGill-Queen's native and northern series, 50. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780773532335
• Chown B, and M Lewis. 1956. "The Blood Group Genes of the Cree Indians and the Eskimos of the Ungava District of Canada". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 14, no. 2: 215-24.
• Harper, Francis. The Friendly Montagnais and Their Neighbors in the Ungava Peninsula. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1964.
• Harper, Francis. Birds of the Ungava Peninsula. Lawrence, Kan: University of Kansas, 1958.
• Lajoie, Paul G. Exploratory Soil Survey of the Fort Chimo District (Ungava Bay, Quebec). Ottawa: Experimental Farms Service, Canada Dept. of Agriculture, 1954.
• Murray, W. H. H. Mamelons, and Ungava, A Legend of the Saguenay. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co, 1890.
• Power, Geoffrey. The Salmon of Ungava Bay. [Montreal]: Arctic Institute of North America, 1969.
• Turner, Lucien M. Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory. Classics of Smithsonian anthropology. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. ISBN 1560989653
• Twomey, Arthur C., and Nigel Herrick. Needle to the North, The Story of an Expedition to Ungava and the Belcher Islands. Houghton Mifflin, 1942.