L'Anse-au-Clair is a town in the

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portion of

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

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. The town has a population of 219 in the 2021 census, up from 192 in 2011. It is located on Route 510, about from the

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–

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border. It was established by the French in the early 18th century. People began to settle in the L'Anse-au-Clair area after the Quebec–Labrador border dispute was settled in 1825. The settlement of L'Anse au Cotard an area near the town is attributed to

Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...

fishermen and merchants coming to the region with the earliest known permanent resident being James Dumaresq from the Dumaresq family who decided to build a home in the region around 1810. Descendants of Dumaresq and other Jersey families still inhabit the region and Canada as a whole.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, L'Anse-au-Clair 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.

References

External links

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L'anse au ClairL'Anse-au-Clair - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 3, p. 245.
Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador Populated places in Labrador {{Labrador-geo-stub