Great Harbour Deep

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Great Harbour Deep was an incorporated town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, situated on the east coast of the Great Northern Peninsula, in White Bay inlet. Harbour Deep, as it is customarily called, is a logging and fishing community that lies at the head of Pigeonnière Arm. It was once known as Orange Bay or Baie L'Orange. The town was originally settled by the French in the 17th century and was predominantly a fishing village. Newfoundland and Labrador have a history of resettling small remote communities dating back to the 1940s. These communities have been abandoned or resettled as either fish stock in the local waters depleted to the point that the community could no longer survive, or as weather and illness made the communities uninhabitable. In the 1960s, a push by the province to resettle the community was rebuffed because of the robust fishing grounds off Great Harbour Deep. Despite being a major source of fish, the province never built a road into the community...

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