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Labrador

 

Contents

Flag

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Map

Numbers and Facts

History

Origin of the Country's Name



Flag

Flagge Fahne flag Labrador
Flag of Labrador,
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Source, by: Wikipedia (EN)



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Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of Labrador was introduced on 1st of April in 1974 and shows three horizontal stripes in white, green and blue, in a ratio of 2:1:2, and a black spruce branch in the upper canton. The upper white stripe stands for the snow, the narrow, green middle-stripe stands for the fertile land during the short summers, the lower blue stripe stands for the water as a livelihood and the most important transport route. The branch of the black spruce goes back to the French-speaking inhabitants of the country, but stands here for all residents, Innu, Innuit and Europeans. The black spruce is the most common tree in Labrador.

Source: Wikipedia (EN)

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Map

Map to illustrate the Position of the Labrador Peninsula:
Labrador und Acadia
Map: Volker Preuß

interaktive Landkarte
Map: Volker Preuß

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Numbers and Facts

Area: 540.000 square miles

Inhabitants: 150.000 (2006)

Density of Population: 0,27 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: –

official Language: –

other Languages: English, French

Currency: Canadian currency

Time Zone: GMT – 4 h to - 5 h

Source: Wikipedia (ES)

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History

ca. 1000 · Normans discover the today's Labrador

1497 · Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), an Italian seafarer in the services of England discovers Labrador, Newfoundland and Cape Breton

16th cent. · England, Portugal and Spain exercise fishing rights and establish momentaryly fishery bases, the Portugese give the peninsula its name

1670 · English furriers establish the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the HBC colonizes in the afteryears whole Canada between New France, the Rocky Mountains, Labrador and the northern rand of the Hudson Bay

1771 · first settlement by Europeans

1869 · the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) cedes all their territorial rights and prerogatives to the British Dominion of Canada

1895 · establishment of the Ungava Territory on the Labrador Peninsula

1912 · the Ungava Territory becomes annexed to Québec

1927 · Newfoundland gets enlarged westward by annexion of parts of the now to Quebéc belonging former Ungava Territory (Labrador Peninsula)

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (D), Discovery '97

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Origin of the Country's Name

The name of the landscape goes back to the Potugiese navigator João Vaz Corte-Real, who called the country "Terra dos lavradores " for reasons that are today not comprehensible no more. That name is to translate as: "Land of the peasants".

Source: Handbuch der geographischen Namen

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