Port Hope Simpson , population 529 (2006), is a town located on the southeast coast of Labrador, 215 kilometers from the Quebec/Labrador border in Canada. It started in the 1930s as a city company.
The city is connected by ferry to the nearby town of William's Harbor. It has a small Port Hope Simpson Airport area served by Air Labrador. It has friendly and independent people with an interesting history and sustainable development priorities in the pristine wilderness area With the completion of Port Hope Simpson Airport and the Trans-Labrador Highway through the region, Port Hope Simpson has benefited from increased tourism.
The nearby Shinney Water Complex has 2,500 square kilometers of over 1,000 islands rising dramatically above sea level. These sheltered waters are ideal for all types of boats and the adjoining Alexis River is a popular fishing destination for Atlantic salmon.
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When the Labrador Development Company left in 1948, they paid work in the remaining forest with him until Bowater arrived 14 years later.
The first post office was established on October 21, 1950. The first post office is Hayward Green. At that time, the population was 311.
New economic activity took place between 1962 and 1968 when Bowater took the pioneering effort set by John Osborn Williams, Sir John Hope Simpson and the Labrador Development Company. More trees are felled for their pulp and paper mill at Corner Brook, and in Kent, England. Bowater brings the benefits of paid (though seasonal) fixed jobs, twenty miles of forest roads and government contributes by sharing the cost of building new docks. But in addition to the post office, the general store and the two schools there were no paid jobs throughout the year from 1969 to 1970.
From 1970 to 1992 cod and salmon were the economic mainstays of the region but unemployment lasted for most of the year. In 1992 the cod fishery was closed altogether. However, many local fishermen make a relatively easy transition into catching crabs, shrimp and shellfish.
Government funding for the construction of the Trans-Labrador Highway, the Port Hope Simpson bridge and Port Hope Simpson Airport have enhanced the city's accessibility as a tourist destination on the Labrador coast.
Since the early 1990s, fishing, logging, timber products, transportation, retail, and public services, Port Hope Simpson's tourism facilities and facilities have contributed to sustainable urban growth.
In August 2002, certain facts were firmly established in relation to unsolved deaths including the first release in 1996-1998 of the "Open" paper by the Public Records Office, London, England which was brought to the attention of the Canadian Police Installed at Canada. (RCMP) of the Serious Crimes Unit at St. John's decided to open their own investigation of what really happened.
This action by the RCMP is the first time in 62 years that unsolved case files have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice in Canada instead of being kept under the former Department of Natural Resources and the Newfoundland Ranger Force.
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Population
- 1945: 352 (Source: Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation);
- 1951: 252 (S.A.D.C.);
- 1965: 489 (S.A.D.C.);
- Mid 1980s: around 650 (S.A.D.C.);
- 1992: around 530 (S.A.D.C.);
- 1996: 577 (Source: Statistics Canada);
- 2001: 509 (S.C.)
- 2002: 535 (S.A.D.C.)
- 2006: Ã,?
References
External links
- Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation 2002;
- Alexis Bay History
- Statistics Canada
- Our Labrador... Sincerely to Explore, Intelligent Labrador, and Combined Council Labrador 1995;
- Labrador Coastal Drive
- Port Hope Simpson - The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 4, p. 395-396.
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