Nunatsiaq News reports today that Quebec officials will hold a meeting in Kuujjuaq next week to discuss a preliminary study on building "a road from Kuujjuaraapik to Radission and a road or railway linking Kuujjuaq to southern Quebec's road network." It also mentions another possibility: "a road from Baie-Comeau on Quebec's North Shore leading north from route 389 at Fermont on the Quebec-Labrador border."
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674nunavimmiut_to_get_sneak_peak_at_potential_road_link_to_south/ (http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674nunavimmiut_to_get_sneak_peak_at_potential_road_link_to_south/)
is there a place where I could find a legibly-sized version of the map in this image?
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/pub/photos/genivar.jpg
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 19, 2012, 03:41:15 PM
is there a place where I could find a legibly-sized version of the map in this image?
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/pub/photos/genivar.jpg
That's a map of railways. Still want it? (No, I couldn't find one.)
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2012, 04:05:17 PM
That's a map of railways. Still want it? (No, I couldn't find one.)
not in that case. thanks for identifying it. I had thought it was roads - active and proposed.
I now have a new favorite placename.
A bit of fun for the capital, Iqaluit: go there in Google Maps (http://g.co/maps/9pe9t) and zoom out. Keep zooming until you see a feature you recognize. That city is far away from everything.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 19, 2012, 04:12:25 PM
not in that case. thanks for identifying it. I had thought it was roads - active and proposed.
It says "Chemins de fer" (iron roads) in the lower right.
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2012, 04:54:44 PM
It says "Chemins de fer" (iron roads) in the lower right.
well, I'll be damned: it sure does.
Quote from: NE2 on January 19, 2012, 04:54:44 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 19, 2012, 04:12:25 PM
not in that case. thanks for identifying it. I had thought it was roads - active and proposed.
It says "Chemins de fer" (iron roads) in the lower right.
Also known, to a generation of boys who read John Christopher's
Tripods books (or the
Boys' Life magazine comic-strip adaptation) when growing up, as a "Shmand-Fair."
I believe regular ferry operations stop at Nain, or at least they used to. You have to be very determined to reach those northern outposts.