Labrador City

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Labrador City

Total population

7,367

Founded

1959

Elevation555 m

Land area38.83 km²

Coordinates52.94°, -66.92°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Labrador City is a town in western Labrador, near the Quebec border. With a population of 7,412 as of 2021, it is the second-largest population centre in Labrador, behind Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Neighbouring Labrador City is Wabush, a smaller town with a population of approximately 1,964 as of 2021. Together, the "twin towns" are known as Labrador West.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Dan LaCosta

Canadian ice hockey player

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Marie-Ève Marleau

Canadian diver

Damhnait Doyle

Canadian musician

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Mike Adam

Canadian male curler

Mark Nichols

Canadian male curler

Pascal Pelletier

Canadian ice hockey player

Michèle Audette

Canadian politician

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Shawn Doyle

Canadian actor

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Chad Penney

Canadian ice hockey player

Darryl Williams

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Joey Russell

Canadian figure skater

Miles Meadows

Canadian actor

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Shelley Nichols

Canadian curler

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Justin Simms

Canadian film director and screenwriter (born 1973)

Catherine Ferland

Canadian historian

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Labrador City

The Maritime Provinces, a handbook for travellers

Moses Foster Sweetser · 1875

Guide to eastern Canada

Frederick John Pratson · 1983

Newfoundland & Labrador includes St. John's plus city plans of Corner Brook, Gander, Grand Falls-Windsor, and the greater St. John's area including a downtown ... plus Newfoundland & Labrador road maps

MapMEDIA Corp · 1999

Report of the Royal Commission into the cause or causes of three industrial accidents involving death which occurred in January and February, 1977, within the mines and property of the Iron Ore Company of Canada situated near Labrador City and into the circumstances surrounding the same ..

Newfoundland. · 1979

Cemetery inscriptions from the Labrador

1985

The Labrador boundary

Richard Budgel · 1987

Ecclesiastical history of Newfoundland

M. F. Howley · 1888

The Maritime Provinces

James R. Osgood · 2018

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers