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

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portion of

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. Touching the small portion of Labrador’s southern ocean, 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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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

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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.

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L'anse au ClairL'Anse-au-Clair - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 3, p. 245.
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