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  Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador's area is much larger than the island's; but most of the province's population is on the island, particularly the Avalon Peninsula.
Labrador on the mainland, geographically the largest area of the province, is the northeast section of the Canadian Shield.
It is Newfoundland's proximity to Europe that led to the early settlements by Norse, Basques, English, and French and to the rich history of the province.
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  Hopedale, Newfoundland and Labrador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hopedale is a town located in the North of Labrador, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hopedale is the legislative capital of the Inuit Land Claims Area Nunatsiavut, and where the Nunatsiavut Assembly meets.
Hopedale was founded as an Inuit settlement named Agvituk, Inuktitut for "Place of the Whales." In 1782, Moravian missonaries from Germany arrived in the area to convert the population.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hopedale,_Labrador   (246 words)

  
 Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism: Regions in Brief - SideStep
The southeast corner of Labrador is served by ferries shuttling between St. Barbe, Newfoundland, and Blanc Sablon, Québec.
The terrain along the Labrador Straits is rugged, and the colors muted except for a vibrant stretch of green along the Pinware River.
Labrador City is the terminus of the Québec North Shore and Labrador Railway (the QNS&L), which departs from Sept-Iles, Québec, and is the only passenger train service in the entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
www.sidestep.com /travel-info-t2994010043-regions_in_brief_labrador_newfoundland_and_labrador   (1913 words)

  
 Labrador at AllExperts
Together with the island of Newfoundland from which it is separated by the Strait of Belle Isle, it constitutes the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland argued it extended to the height of land, but Canada, stressing the historical use of the term "Coasts of Labrador", argued the boundary was one statute mile (1.6 km) inland from the high-tide mark.
As Canada and Newfoundland were separate countries, but both members of the British Empire, the matter was referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (in London), which set the Labrador boundary mostly along the coastal watershed.
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 Labrador travel guide - Wikitravel
Labrador is 'The Big Land'--the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Northern Labrador (Nunatsiavut) -- an area self-governed by the Inuit of Labrador as of 2005, over 72,000 square kilometres of land, including the area north of Nain and a portion of the Atlantic coast to the south.
Labrador is home to the largest herds of Caribou in the world, and is teeming with the kind of abundant wildlife often associated with the northern portion of Canada.
wikitravel.org /en/Labrador   (707 words)

  
 Exploring Our Past Newfoundland and Labrador
In Newfoundland, the Indian groups of the late prehistoric period are distinguished by their use of local cherts and by production of tiny, intricate points that were probably used as arrow tips for birding or for hunting small game.
Both the Labrador and the Newfoundland Indians of this period spent warm times of the year on the coast and moved to the interior to hunt caribou during colder seasons.
Newfoundland and Labrador boasts many historic sites commemorating the people and events that shaped the history of this province and the continent.
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 Hopedale, Labrador - 1959 - Inuit from Hebron - As Indicated
Many of the Inuit went initially to Hopedale because it was the only community that came close to being able to accommodate a rapid increase in population.
As newcomers at Hopedale and Makkovik, Hebronimiut were interjected in communities with established social and economic patterns, leadership and norms of behaviour.
Hopedale and Makkovik residents had already arranged a system of land use regarding harvests of resources which had commercial value and they had vested claims to the best fishing, sealing and trapping areas.
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 Labrador Odyssey: The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893. by ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Labrador Odyssey: The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893.
Despite the attempts of a number of promoters at the time and some Newfoundland 'nationalists' since, Newfoundland and Labrador outside of the Avalon Peninsula and a few scattered company towns was largely impoverished; the Labrador section of the colony was worse than the island portion.
Yet he suggests that the Esquimaux families were doing much better than those from Newfoundland, and he lauds the work of the Moravian missionaries and their work in Hopedale with the indigenous peoples.
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 LLS Traditional Law Workshop in Hopedale, Labrador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
When Newfoundland and Labrador entered confederation with Canada in the 1950's and 60's, the resettlement program began throughout the province.
Labrador did have Newfoundland Rangers, but their visits to settlements were not frequent.
Also, the Labrador Inuit Association is in the process of a Land Claims Agreement, within the next couple of years it is hoped that aboriginal people will reclaim some of the old ways through community government systems.
labradorlegal.ca /rpt2.htm   (1482 words)

  
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Labrador's continental shelf is about 250 kilometers wide and extends 2,000 kilometers from the northern tip of Newfoundland to Baffin Island.
Campbell's epiphany came shortly thereafter, on a street corner in Calgary: He observed a city bus drive by, equipped with a FRP pressure vessel on the roof, and advertising that it was fueled by CNG.
The Labrador Shelf includes the Saglek and Hopedale basins, which are separated by an east-west trending basement high.
www.aapg.org /explorer/2004/12dec/labrador.cfm   (1920 words)

  
 h2g2 : Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada : A428212
Labrador is loosely inhabited, from the Strait of Belle Isle in the south to Nain in the north.
Labrador is likely to be talking to the natives, who are entirely friendly and talkative, and a great source of information about their homeland.
Labrador is largely a political colony of Newfoundland, and an economic colony of Quebec which established the mining and hydroelectric industries.
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 Aboriginal Peoples: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador today is home to four peoples of Aboriginal ancestry: the Inuit, the Innu, the Micmac and the Metis.
The major Innu communities in Labrador are Sheshatshiu on Lake Melville in central Labrador and Utshimassit (Davis Inlet) on Labrador's northern coast.
The Labrador Metis are descendants of Europeans and Labrador Native people, primarily the Inuit, Labrador Metis today live in a number of communities on the central and southern Labrador coast.
www.heritage.nf.ca /aboriginal   (416 words)

  
 Mondes d'Ailleurs Terre Neuve et Labrador: Alexandre Siquet rubrique ardenneweb.eu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Venez au Labrador, une des dernières régions sauvages du monde – une immense frontière.
Newfoundland is home to the world’s southernmost woodland caribou herd.
Un voyage au Labrador n’est pas un voyage de vacances ordinaire.
www.farmsboro.com /AM/LABRADOR/mondesdailleurs.htm   (2488 words)

  
 Newfoundland Weather. Labrador Weather   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The weather in Newfoundland is primarily affected by the Atlantic Ocean.
Labrador winters are much colder than those on the island.
While summers are shorter and generally cooler, extreme high temperatures are not uncommon in Labrador.
www.newfoundland.com /content/weather   (161 words)

  
 List of airports in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
YDF Deer Lake Airport, Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador
YDH Daniel's Harbour Airport, Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador
YMH Mary's Harbour Airport, Mary's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_airports_in_Canada   (462 words)

  
 LABRADOR
The band is a sill of gabbro, which intrudes the rest of the "hat", composed of Early Proterozoic granitic rocks.
About halfway between Postville and Hopedale, the ship passes inside Striped Island, which is composed of pale, buff-weathering granite with nearly horizontal joints.
The contorted gneissic banding and granite veins are best seen on smooth shoreline exposures between the "American Dock", where the ship lands and which was built when this was a US radar base, and the community itself.
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 Chapter 20 - Aboriginal Land Use And Culture
At the northern extremity of the Labrador coast, a range of high barren mountains with sharp precipices extending inland from the sea was known to traditional Inuit as the abode of the master spirit in their mythology.
Compared to other Inuit populations in Canada, Labrador Inuit became Christian converts at a relatively early historical period and are distinguished by their Moravian faith, in contrast to Anglican and Catholic congregations in other arctic regions.
Most of the literature on affairs in northern Labrador during the 19th and 20th centuries presents the Inuit adoption of Christianity as an inevitable response to the persuasive augments which the Moravian missionaries brought against the pre-existing Inuit spiritual beliefs and practices.
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 Alaska * Partner Provices * Moravian Board of World Mission
A smaller native group, the Innu, came from the Labrador interior to fish the coastal waters during the summer.
The total population of Northern Coastal Labrador is approximately 2,500 individuals, living in five coastal villages.
The Board of World Mission has been in affiliation with the Moravian Church in Newfoundland and Labrador since 1980 and is currently working closely with the Labrador Church to facilitate the development and training of native leadership for ministry.
www.moravianmission.org /partnerprovinces/nf_labrador.phtml   (424 words)

  
 Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Off The Beaten Path Tips by jamiesno - VirtualTourist.com
Hopedale is strategically located on Labrador's north coast and with a recent ratification of the Inuit land claim settlement with the governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador, Hopedale will soon my the location for the new Nunatsiavut Governments legislature.
Labrador is home to Voiseys Bay one of the world's richest nickel deposits now being developed by the Voiseys Bay Nickel Company a subsidiary of Inco.
Lodge Bay, Labrador is a small former fishing village on the southeastern coast of the Labrador region.
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 Hopedale, Newfoundland and Labrador History, Trivia and Facts
Hopedale, Newfoundland and Labrador History, Trivia and Facts
Hopedale, Newfoundland and Labrador's Searchable Yellow Pages, Local Links, Coupons, Travel Pages, Moving Guide
Thank you for visiting Hopedale Newfoundland and Labrador History, Trivia and Facts
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 Bibliography of Newfoundland and Labrador History
Smith, F.J. 'Newfoundland and Confederation, 1864-1870.' Unpublished MA thesis, University of Ottawa 1970.
An Exploratory Voyage to northernmost Labrador and northeastern Ungava Bay in 1811 (Abstract)'(85); Frederick A.
Waghorne (1851-1900): Newfoundland's first Botanist (Abstract)' (147); B.A. Roberts, 'Merritt Lydon Fernald (1873-1950), his investigations and discoveries in the Newfoundland flora' (148-57); D.H. Steele, 'John James Audubon in Newfoundland' (158-78); and W.A. Montevecchi, 'Trends in Nineteenth Century Ornithology as exemplified by the Research of Peter C. Stuwitz and John Cyrus Cahoon in Newfoundland' (179-99).
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 Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
century map makers, Hopedale was formerly called Agvituk Bay, which in the Inuktitut language means "a place where there are whales".
The Museum is located in the Moravian Mission House - a building attached to the church, which housed the ministers and their families.
The mission is the oldest wooden structure east of Quebec.
www.manl.nf.ca /agvituk.htm   (122 words)

  
 Protected Areas Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
On June 25 2001, after more than two years of discussion, representatives of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Canada and the Labrador Inuit Association signed the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement-In-Principle.
The goal of this agreement -- the first of its kind in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador -- is to promote long-term economic and social development, and to provide the Labrador Inuit with clearly defined land, resources and self-government rights.
The Labrador Inuit Lands, which the Inuit will own, will consist of 15,800 km² located inside the Settlement Area.
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 Air Labrador
Established in 1948, as Newfoundland Airways, the airline operated float-equipped aircraft from their base in Gander, Newfoundland.
From its humble beginning the airline has shifted its base of operations to Goose Bay, Labrador and expanded to include a modern well-equipped fleet, the largest accredited aircraft maintenance facility in Labrador, and a team of dedicated and experienced staff.
Air Labrador's Beech 1900 and Twin Otters operating in a such harsh weather are awesome.
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 Newfoundland Historic Trust - 1999 - Hopedale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
One of the great mansions constructed during the building boom of the 1880s, Hopedale is a product of the successful sealing voyages of Capt. Samuel Blandford.
Blandford was MHA for Bonavista 1889-93 and then made a member of the Legislative Council on which he served until his death in 1909.
The work here was a family effort because it went beyond Pam and Owen to take in Pam's brother Harold Cooper, and her father, Samuel Cooper, of Harper Construction.
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 Trappers of Labrador
The Liveyers(1) of Labrador derived this name by which they called themselves from “livers here” to distinguish them from migratory summer fishermen from Newfoundland, England and the New England states.
For example, the past tense of the verb ‘to fly’ becomes flid as in “He haven’t flid yet.”(5) Their language is as direct and colorful as anything created by their Newfoundland cousins: “The glass dropped like a hot potato” speaking of the barometer, and “Enough to blow your eyes out” of a raging gale.
The tradition of trapping was handed down from generation to generation, from father to son and, in some instances, father to daughter.
www.achart.ca /publications/trappers.htm   (3046 words)

  
 Hopedale 1
None of the coastal towns in Labrador could be described as "pretty" but Hopedale is the nearest to that description.
Looking across the east side of the town to Hopedale Run.
Hopedale has a largely Inuit population and I found the people very friendly and helpful.
www.wright-photo.com /hopedale1.htm   (156 words)

  
 Hans-Josef Rollmann
"Inuit Shamanism and the Moravian Missionaries of Labrador: A Textual Agenda for the Study of Native Inuit Religion." Etudes/Inuit/Studies 8(1985), Nr.
"Anglicans, Puritans and Quakers in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Newfoundland." Avalon Chronicles 2(1997), 44-72.
Labrador through Moravian eyes [electronic resource]: 250 years of art, photographs and records CD-ROM, created by Jerry Thoms; Monique Maynard; Text and Art selections and content guidance by Hans Rollmann.
www.mun.ca /rels/rsinfo/fsinfo/rollmann.html   (2436 words)

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