Photo: Father Jules Dion of Kangiqsujuaq, 85 years young

Father Jules Dion of Kangiqsujuaq, 85, stands near a soapstone carving of the Virgin Mary made by the late Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk for the mission. Known in Nunavik by his Inuttitut name, Pirtiu, Father Dion arrived in Quaqtaq in July 1955, as a newly-ordained Oblate missionary. Over coffee at his kitchen table, where he was reading the latest Nunatsiaq News, Father Dion told how, when he first arrived in the settlement of Wakeham Bay, he spent five years working on the mission, now the oldest building in Kangiqsujuaq, where he still lives today. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)