Postville is an
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
town in the north of
Labrador
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, Canada.
It had a population of 188 as of 2021.
[ It is located about into the interior of ]Kaipokok Bay
Kaipokok Bay is a bay in Labrador
, nickname = "The Big Land"
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, NNE of Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Happy Valley-Goose Bay (Inuit: ''Vâli'') is a town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Located in the central part of Labrador on the coast of Lake Melville and the Churchill River, Happy Valley-Goose Bay is the largest popul ...
. Postville Airport is nearby.
Postville is inaccessible by road and may be reached only by air or sea.
In the 18th century, the Franco-Canadian merchant Louis Fornel
Louis Fornel (August 20, 1698 – May 30, 1745) was a Canadian people, Canadian merchant, explorer, and Seigneurial system of New France, seigneur in New France. Involved in maritime trade and both born and married into prominent Quebec families, ...
landed near the present site of Rigolet
Rigolet ( Inuttitut: ''Tikigâksuagusik'') (population 310) is a remote, coastal Labrador community established in 1735 by French-Canadian trader Louis Fornel. The town is the southernmost officially recognized Inuit community in the world. Loca ...
and claimed the land for France in 1743. The Franco-Canadians established trading posts in Kaipokok Bay at that time.
The English took control of the Labrador coast in 1763 after the Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (175 ...
. This brought a flood of European fishermen and whalers to settle on the Labrador coast.
Around 1784, Pierre Marcoux and Louis Marchand reopened the old Kaipokok trading post. In 1795, the Moravian Brothers of Hopedale observed that Pierre Marcoux and the former partner of George Cartwright Collingham were the first Europeans to settle in Kaipokok Bay.
In order to compete with the Moravians, the Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...
established a coastal trading post in Kaipokok Bay
Kaipokok Bay is a bay in Labrador
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, subdivision_type = Country
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in 1837 shortly after Rigolet. The counter was operated until 1878.
The village was first known as The Post because of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post located in the area. Inuit families traded in the fall, winter and spring before returning to the coastal camps in the summer. The village was renamed Postville in the 1940s by a pastor who helped establish the community by building a school and a church.
Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weak ...
deposits
A deposit account is a bank account maintained by a financial institution in which a customer can deposit and withdraw money. Deposit accounts can be savings accounts, current accounts or any of several other types of accounts explained below.
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are located near Postville.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by Statistics Canada, Postville had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of .
References
Inuit community governments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Populated places in Labrador
Road-inaccessible communities of Newfoundland and Labrador
Fishing communities in Canada
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