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Point Riche
The Headland of Point Riche is located near the community of Port au Choix on the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland in the Canada, Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Point Riche to Cape Bonavista was the defining points of coastline where the France, French could fish around the coast of Newfoundland which is called the French Shore. The point is marked by the Point Riche Lighthouse. Notes External linksPoint Riche Lighthouse - Lighthouse Friends Headlands of Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Au Choix
Port au Choix or Port aux Choix (, ; from misanalyzed to mean 'choice port', from eu, Portutxoa , meaning 'little port') is a town in the Canada, Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Port au Choix had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. National Historic Site Port au Choix is a National Historic Sites of Canada, National Historic Site of Canada, and the community is regarded as one of the richest archeological finds in North America. Burial sites uncovered in the town in the 1960s & 70s provide evidence of its earliest settlers - from the Maritime Archaic Indians to the Groswater culture, Groswater and Paleo-Eskimos, Dorset Palaeoeskimos to the Recent Indians (ancestors of the Beothuks). While preh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
