Toward Quebec City and Montreal and...

I'm leaving Baie-Comeau this morning, heading toward Quebec City and Montreal.
Hopefully, this town has a do-it-yourself car wash so I can spray off the bike before I leave.
It's overcast, with clouds just above the treetops, but no serious rain in the forecast.

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The Nunavut issue.

As of now, I have ridden to all 49 states, and all of the provinces and territories in Canada.
Except one.  Nunavut.  (NOON-uh-voot)

Nunavut is the largest territory in Canada - roughly 2/3 the size of the entire lower 48 states.
It’s also the least populated territory - only 36,600 people live there, mostly Inuit.

I joked about Labrador having only one road, but Nunavut has NONE.
At least none that reach outside its borders.
The bottom line is that it's a vast wilderness, and you can’t ride there.
Or can you?

I found from someone on a forum that there is a way. The southeastern border of Nunavut encompasses the entire Hudson Bay, and the boundary actually includes some land on the Quebec side of the Bay.

Which means that if a… 'person' were to leave Montreal and ride up the remote James Bay Road 908 miles north to where it ends at a little village on the Hudson Bay called Chisasibi, that 'person' could actually go onto the beach and enter the territory of Nunavut.
(And then ride back south on the same road, as in "Dalton Highway").

Of course, it would be ridiculous to make an 1800-mile round trip to an outpost just to say you’ve been there.
No sane person would do that.


People say that the road is entirely paved.  :-)