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- The Move
A video on the resettlement of the Rumboldt family
in 1968.
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Home  Virtual Exhibits Resettlement British Harbour
British Harbour
A small fishing community on the north side of Trinity Bay, about 19 kilometres southwest of Trinity, British Harbour was
abandoned under the Federal-Provincial Resettlement Program around 1969. Residents were heavily involved in the Labrador fishery,
the inshore fishery and boat building. The highest recorded population of 224 in 1901 fell to 78 in 1966, no doubt due in part to
the decline of the Labrador fishery. Most of the images presented here either date from the time of Confederation when British
Harbour was a very scenic but still active community in the fishery, or twenty years later when resettlement was under way.
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