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Wemindji (Cree village municipality)

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Country
  
Canada

RCM
  
None

Time zone
  
EST (UTC−5)

Population
  
0 (2011)

Mayor
  
Rodney Mark

Postal code(s)
  
J0M 1L0

Region
  
Nord-du-Québec

Constituted
  
June 28, 1978

Area
  
184.9 km²

Area code
  
819

Province
  
Québec

Wemindji (Cree village municipality)

Website
  
www.wemindji-nation.qc.ca

Wemindji is a Cree village municipality in the territory of Eeyou Istchee in northern Quebec; it has a distinct legal status and classification from other kinds of village municipalities in Quebec: Naskapi village municipalities, northern villages (Inuit communities), and ordinary villages.

As with all other Cree village municipalities in Quebec, there is a counterpart Cree reserved land of the same name located nearby: Wemindji.

Despite the title of "village municipality" and the formalities that go along with it (for instance, having a mayor), Statistics Canada lists it (and all other Cree village municipalities in Quebec) as having no resident population or residential infrastructure (dwellings); it is the Cree reserved lands that are listed as having population and residential dwellings in the 2011 census, the 2006 census, and earlier censuses.

References

Wemindji (Cree village municipality) Wikipedia