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Red Bay Basque Whaling Station

Red Bay Road, Red Bay, NL A0K 4K0

From the 1540s to early 1600s, Basque crews crossed the Atlantic to hunt whales along Labrador’s coast. This early industry produced prized whale oil for Europe, revealing one of North America’s first large-scale resource enterprises.

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