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Torngat Mountains National Park (Inuktitut: Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga) [2] is a Canadian national park located on the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The park encompasses 9,700 km 2 (3,700 sq mi; 2,400,000 acres) of mountainous terrain between Northern Quebec and the Labrador Sea. [3]
These are separate territories that are located near the northern village of the same name, and are for the exclusive use of Inuit for various hunting, fishing, and other economic activities. The Canada 2011 Census and the 2006 census before it show that all of these Inuit reserved lands have no resident population.
Map showing Quebec in blue, Newfoundland and Labrador in both red and striped red and blue. The border between the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the province of Quebec is the longest interprovincial border in Canada. It stretches for more than 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) on land, and, according to both provincial governments, also ...
Mary Beth Harshbarger (born February 19, 1965) is an American woman who rose to media attention when she shot her husband, Mark Harshbarger, during a hunting trip in Newfoundland, Canada, thinking he was a bear. She was charged with "criminal negligence causing death" and found not guilty.
The Pikauba River, in 1940.. Parc des Laurentides was created in 1895 as a forest reserve and as a recreational area for the public. In 1981, two large parcels were split off to become Jacques-Cartier National Park in the south and the Grands-Jardins National Park in the east, while the remaining territory was established as a wildlife reserve.
Animals that can be found in the park include moose, caribou, white-tailed deer, gray wolf, red fox, the Canada lynx, the black bear, river otter, porcupine and the Canadian beaver. Atlantic salmon, brook trout and the Arctic char can be found in the lakes and in the Jacques-Cartier river. The park is also visited by more than 100 species of ...
Located on the banks of L'Anse-au-Loup Brook and the Strait of Belle Isle, along the Trans-Labrador Highway (Route 510), the town of l'Anse-au-Loup [4] is an integral part of the heroic and action-rich history of the Labrador fishery, the whaling and cod fishing industry, the disputes between the governments of Quebec, as well as the ...
The Newfoundland black bear (Ursus americanus hamiltoni) is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear, which is endemic to the island of Newfoundland in Atlantic Canada. The Newfoundland black bear ranges in size from 90 to 270 kilograms (200 to 600 lb) and averaging 135 kilograms (298 lb).