Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A large region of northern Quebec east of Hudson Bay. Consisting mostly of tundra and subarctic forest, Nunavik is sparsely populated except for a few Inuit villages.
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- proper noun The northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada.
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Examples
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Many caribou hunting clients who are now in Nunavik prepaid their 2009 trips before the stock market crashed and companies started to lay off thousands of workers.
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Many may choose not to spend money on caribou hunting in Nunavik in 2010.
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Many may choose not to spend money on caribou hunting in Nunavik in 2010.
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Many caribou hunting clients who are now in Nunavik prepaid their 2009 trips before the stock market crashed and companies started to lay off thousands of workers.
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I'm going to be asking retired teachers to sort books and we will be restocking libraries and bringing books into isolated communities of Native people in Nunavik, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Northern Quebec and other areas, as well as showing that Canadians care about the well-being of Native children.
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Outfitters say the hunters’ poor experience with Tuttulik hasn’t yet affected their business, but bad publicity for hunting in Nunavik could turn out to be an extra burden in tough economic times.
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Outfitters say the hunters’ poor experience with Tuttulik hasn’t yet affected their business, but bad publicity for hunting in Nunavik could turn out to be an extra burden in tough economic times.
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The numbers of hunters coming to Nunavik to hunt is already down from a high of about 5,000 to fewer than 3,000 in 2009, a nosedive that began after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 made many Americans more reluctant to travel abroad.
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The numbers of hunters coming to Nunavik to hunt is already down from a high of about 5,000 to fewer than 3,000 in 2009, a nosedive that began after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 made many Americans more reluctant to travel abroad.
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The Post's Caps beat writer, Tarik El-Bashir, suggests this fine piece by Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber, about former NHL player Joe Juneau moving 800 miles north to devote himself to teaching hockey and the finer points of life to kids in the grim sub-arctic Nunavik region of northern Quebec.
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