Outport

Outport scene on Fogo Island .

Outport is a remote coastal community in the eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador .

General

A fishing outport.

Outports are among the oldest European settlements in Canada . Many outports were settled by Portuguese , Spanish , French and English fishermen and whalers between the 16th and 19th centuries . They typically consist of anonymous wooden houses and fishermen's huts.

Inaccessibility and fishing bans continue to depopulate the outports, especially due to the urbanization of young people.

Others

• 1969 appeared CBC - radio documentary by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould , entitled The Late Comers ( Engl. "Laggards"), which reported on outports in Newfoundland.
• Outport is the name of a SourceForge project for exporting Microsoft Outlook data.