L'Anse-Amour
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| Location in Newfoundland and Labrador | |||
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| Province : | Newfoundland and Labrador | ||
| Region: | Census Division No. 10 | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 28 ′ N , 56 ° 52 ′ W | ||
| Residents : | 8 (as of:) | ||
L'Anse-Amour is a small settlement with 8 inhabitants on the south coast of Labrador . The settlement is on the Belle Isle Road , which separates the mainland from the island of Newfoundland . In L'Anse-Amour is the oldest grave in Canada, around 7,500 years old. The place is used in the census of Subdivision A of Census Division No. 10 assigned.
The grave of L'Anse-Amour
The place became famous through an archaeological excavation in 1974 at the L'Anse Amour Site . In a round burial mound over 8 m in diameter, the body of a child dated to 7500 BP (~ 5550 BC) was found, the age of which is estimated to be 12 years. The mound was reconstructed after the excavation and is designated a National Historic Site , the artifacts are on display at the Labrador Straits Museum in nearby L'Anse au Loup . Grave and finds are assigned to the Maritime Archaic tradition from the Archaic period .
British colonial rule
For a long time the region, which was frequented by fishermen, was largely beyond the control of the colonial powers. This began to change towards the end of British rule. The commander of La Canadienne Pierre-Étienne Fortin, who was to control the fishermen north of the Saint Lawrence River from 1852 to 1867 , was commissioned in 1859 to explain the new fishing rules to the coastal residents. As he explained to them on May 29th of that year, the Montagnais were no longer allowed to fish for salmon by torchlight. But he himself doubted that this regulation could be enforced in the remote area.
The British also tried to replace established French names with English ones after 1755, the year the Acadians were deported . Thus Anse aux Morts on Prince Edward Iceland , which previously Isle Saint Jean had been called, renamed, in Mermaid Cove . Labrador was largely spared of this. Originally L'Anse-Amour was also called L'Anse aux Morts , which means “Bay of the Dead”. However, today's name is based on a misunderstanding in the pronunciation of the former French name in English.
Shipwreck of 1922
The Point Amour Lighthouse has been located at nearby Point Amour since 1857 , a lighthouse that is used to orient ship traffic on the Belle Isle Strait, which is dangerous due to ice drifts and currents. Here on August 8, 1922, the HMS Raleigh , a British Hawkins-class heavy cruiser, which had only been commissioned in 1919, stranded due to navigation errors in the fog. Remnants of the wreck can still be viewed despite the partial detonation in 1926. Today's residents are descendants of those who survived this disaster .
Web links
- L'Anse-Amour at Natural Resources Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'Anse-Amour, Census 2016 . Statistics Canada. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
- ^ William Brian Stewart: A Life on the Line. Commander Pierre-Étienne Fortin and his Times , McGill-Queen's Press, 1997, p. 54.
- ↑ Bona Arsenault, Pascal Alain: Histoire des Acadiens , Les Editions Fides, 2004, p. 361.
- ↑ Labrador Coastal Drive: L'Anse Amour
- ↑ http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2005/august/08_hms_raleigh.htm