Article A mother and her newborn who was delivered at the Inukjuak Maternity amidst rising COVID-19 restriction in Nunavik, Quebec, September 2020. Image by Patrice Latka. Canada, 2020. A newborn’s cries break the expectant stillness of the delivery room. Beaming beneath her surgical mask, midwife Kimberly Moorhouse lifts the baby to the new mother’s glistening face as the sun begins to crest over the Inukjuak midwifery center in Nunavik, a remote region in northern Quebec. A few short decades ago, such scenes were not possible in Nunavik. Starting in the 1970s, in an attempt to reduce birth complications, the government’s national health service began sending women in the community south at 36 weeks gestation, to give birth in Moose Factory (a community in northern Ontario, ~515 miles away). With no family members for support and unreliable flight options to return home, Moorhouse explained, the women sometimes had to sit alone in Moose Factory for months.