CH-0009 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Basque whaling in the Strait of Belle Isle
Basque expeditions developed a large seasonal whaling enterprise in the Strait of Belle Isle from the mid-sixteenth into the early seventeenth century.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- Red Bay, Labrador and Lower North Shore
- Present-day context
- Red Bay, Labrador and Lower North Shore — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Basque, Local Indigenous peoples
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
Parks Canada · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.