The corporation’s role includes the administration and investment of these funds and the promotion of economic growth by providing assistance for the creation of Inuit-operated businesses in Nunavik. Makivik promotes the preservation of Inuit culture and language as well as the health, welfare and education of the Inuit. Makivik Corporation formed in 1975 as the land claims organization mandated to manage the heritage funds of the Inuit of Nunavik provided for under the first comprehensive Inuit land claim in Canada, the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement. The landscape is breathtaking during the day, both in summer and winter, and on a clear night, the northern lights can put on quite a show!” The weather is generally pleasant in the summer the main issue on a calm day are the flies. “During the summer, days are very long, the sun hides below the horizon for only a few hours at ‘night’ at the end of June. An average northern winter day can reach -30 degrees Celsius, and it dips lower at night. “Since we’re a northern operator, we deal with short days in the winter contaminated runways like snow drifts, ice, blowing snow icing and extreme cold. “We operate from major international airports such as Montreal and Quebec City all the way to remote community gravel runways,” said Jonathan Lukca, Air Inuit’s assistant to the Twin Otter and King Air chief pilot. But providing a much-needed service and the spectacular views from the cockpit are the reward. In the far north, the aircraft and pilots are put to the test with extreme weather conditions and varying landing options. They started with one single-engine De Havilland Beaver aircraft and today operate 31 aircraft, including four Beechcraft King Air aircraft, to provide passenger, charter, cargo and emergency air transport services throughout northern Quebec and destinations across Canada and the United States. Only four of those communities have populations of more than 1,000.Īir Inuit – founded and fully owned by the Inuit through Makivik Corporation – began operations in 1978 to bring air service to a region that had been mostly inaccessible. The 170,000-square-mile territory is north of the 55th parallel and inhabited by about 12,500 aboriginal people, the Inuit, who live in 14 modern villages along the coasts of Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. Nunavik is an immense arctic region of frozen tundra, snow forest, scenic mountains, rivers and lakes in the northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada.
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