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  Encyclopedia: Labrador Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the south-east.
The peninsula includes the region of Labrador (also called the Coast of Labrador), part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and the regions of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Côte-Nord, and Nord-du-Québec, which are in the province of Quebec.
The operates the Quebec, North Shore, and Labrador Railway to transport ore concentrate 500 miles south to the port of Sept Iles, Quebec for shipment to steel mills in North America and elsewhere.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Labrador-Peninsula   (480 words)

  
 Labrador - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Labrador is a region on the easternmost coast of Canada.
It forms the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, together with the island of Newfoundland from which it is separated by the Strait of Belle Isle.
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.
open-encyclopedia.com /Labrador   (661 words)

  
 Chapter 20 - Aboriginal Land Use And Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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.
Kohlmeister, Benjamin and George Kmoch 1814 Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, westward of Cape Chudleigh.
www.innu.ca /tanner1.html   (8271 words)

  
 Newfoundland and Labrador - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to cross the Ungava-Labrador Peninsula, and to forge a name for himself as an adventure writer.
He took a friend, a guide, a canoe, a ton of equipment, and scads of naive hope.
There is a moment in Bush Pilot Angler, the late Lee Wulff's newly uncovered journal of his flying and fly-fishing off the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland in the '40s and '50s, that should turn all who've ever cast a fly green with envy.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /newfoundland_and_labrador.htm   (350 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ungava
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A Canadian territory lying north of the Province of Quebec, detached (1876) from the Great Labrador peninsula.
It is bounded on the west by Hudson's Straits, comprising Ungava Bay, on the north-east and east by Labrador proper, on the south by the Province of Quebec, on the west by Hudson and James' Bays.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15127a.htm   (244 words)

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