Photo: Long-time co-op manager Yves Michaud dies

In this photo Yves Michaud, third from the left, participates in a news conference during the 1970s with Elijassie Sallualuk, Claude-Armand Sheppard, Taamusi Qumaq and Davidee Mark. Michaud, 67, died Aug. 18 in a car accident in Bolivia, where he was for Socodevi, the international development arm of a group of cooperatives. Michaud, a long-time manager at the Nunavik’s co-operative network, the Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec, spoke fluent Inuktitut. He will be missed by his children, grandchildren and many relatives and friends in Nunavik and southern Quebec. (PHOTO BY GERALD MCKENZIE, COURTESY OF THE AVATAQ CULTURAL INSTITUTE)