Lodge Bay
Ranger Lodge | |
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| Coordinates: 52°13′00″N 55°37′59″W / 52.21667°N 55.63306°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town Council |
| • MHA | Lisa Dempster |
| • MP | Yvonne Jones |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14.68 km2 (5.67 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 61 |
| Time zone | UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight) |
| Postal Code | |
| Area code | 709 |
| Highways |  Route 510 (Trans-Labrador Highway) |
Lodge Bay is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the southeast coast of Labrador. Encompassing a population of less than one hundred residents, the community has uniquely evolved from both early European colonization of Labrador, and the inimitable patterns of land and resource use by the migratory Inuit population.[1] The name Lodge Bay originated from the title Ranger Lodge, which was the name given to the area by trader and explorer, Captain George Cartwright in the late 18th century.[2] "Ranger" was the name of the wooden-mercantile ship Cartwright used to trade, map and explore the Labrador coast, while "Lodge" was the name given to English hunting camps in Great Britain at that time.[3]
- ^ Kennedy, John. C. "Labrador Village". Waveland Press, Inc. 1995
- ^ Cartwright, George & Stopp, Marianne P. (Ed.) "The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright". McGill-Queens University Press. 2008
- ^ McAleese, K. "The Archaeology of a Late Eighteenth Century Sealing Post in Southern Labrador: Captain George Cartwright's Stage Cove." Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1991