Ungava Bay community gets new hotel

Tourists can now look forward to staying at a new hotel in Kangirsuk, one of Nunavik’s smallest communities on Ungava Bay.

Residents got their first look at the Kangirsuk Co-op Hotel on March 17, when the building was open to the public.

The hotel has 12 rooms, three times more than the guest house it replaces, and is expected to cater to business travellers and tourists from around the continent.

The $1.6 million-dollar project was completed with funding from a long list of sponsors. They include Makivik Corp., the provincial government, the Kativik Regional Government, and the federal government’s Aboriginal Business Canada program.

The Nunavik Tourism Association, Investment Quebec, the Nunavik Investment Corp., and the Kangirsuk Landholding Corp. also contributed funding.