The River Brador (formerly named "River Bay Bradore") flows into the city of

Blanc-Sablon Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,122 inhabitants in 2021, it is the most p ...

in the

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(MRC)

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border. ...

, in the administrative region of North Shore, in

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Geography

The Brador river rises from the "Lac Bradore Cabin", west of the border of

–

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. This lake supplies including water in upstream lakes: Philip Bridge and Shirt Tail. While the lake outlets Stove Pipe Gulch and L. Bezeau empties into the river Brador. The river flows south in the far east of the

; its course is parallel to the boundary of

Labrador , nickname = "The Big Land" , etymology = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 ...

. After crossing the route 138, it flows into the Bay of Brador, located northeast of the town of

Blanc-Sablon, Quebec Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,122 inhabitants in 2021, it is the most p ...

, connected to

Strait of Belle Isle The Strait of Belle Isle (; french: Détroit de Belle Isle ) is a waterway in eastern Canada that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Location The strait is the northern o ...

. The mouth of the river is north of the hamlet "Brador" and west of the border

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Toponymy

Nestled on the eastern shore of the bay of the same name, the hamlet Brador is west of the border

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. This hamlet was named in the eighteenth century under the names of "Fort Pontchartrain" and "Bay Phélipeaux". This hamlet is built into the municipality of Blanc-Sablon. The term "Brador" is a truncated derivative of the word "Labrador". The syllable "la" of this name was amputated and is considered an article. This truncated spelling of his first element figured early in the documents of the

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

. In his travel notes,

Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fre ...

sometimes wrote "la Brador" sometimes "Labrador". In 1704, Fort Pontchartrain to be erected at Brador, under the direction of

Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche (December 16, 1663 – June 29, 1717) was a Canadian soldier and ambassador from Labrador. Biography Born in Quebec City on December 16, 1663, Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche joined the military in 1690, serv ...

. Formerly,

and its surroundings had served as a maritime and military vocation. In the municipality of

, several names use the term "Brador": village, town, bay, river, lake, bay, "Hills Brador", the "Bird Sanctuary of Brador Bay" and "biodiversity reserve Hills Brador". The name "Brador River" was made official on Dec. 5, 1968, at the Bank of place names in the Geographical Names Board of QuébecGeographical Names Board of Québec - Bank of place names - Toponyme: "Brador river".

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