The River Brador (formerly named "River Bay Bradore") flows into the city of Blanc-Sablon in the

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(MRC)

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, in the administrative region of North Shore, in

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Geography

The Brador river rises from the "Lac Bradore Cabin", west of the border of

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Labrador Labrador () is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the primarily continental portion of the province and constitutes 71% of the province's area but is home to only 6% of its populatio ...

. This lake supplies including water in upstream lakes: Philip Bridge and Shirt Tail. While the lake outlets Stove Pipe Gulch and L. Bezeau empties into the river Brador. The river flows south in the far east of the

; its course is parallel to the boundary of

. After crossing the route 138, it flows into the Bay of Brador, located northeast of the town of

Blanc-Sablon, Quebec Blanc-Sablon () is a municipality located on the shore of Blanc-Sablon Bay, in the Strait of Belle-Isle, Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent RCM, Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. The municipality is made up of the merger of the villages Lourdes-de-Blanc ...

, connected to

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. The mouth of the river is north of the hamlet "Brador" and west of the border

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Toponymy

Nestled on the eastern shore of the bay of the same name, the hamlet Brador is west of the border

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. This hamlet was named in the eighteenth century under the names of "Fort Pontchartrain" and "Bay Phélipeaux". This hamlet is built into the municipality of Blanc-Sablon. The term "Brador" is a truncated derivative of the word "Labrador". The syllable "la" of this name was amputated and is considered an article. This truncated spelling of his first element figured early in the documents of the

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. In his travel notes,

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sometimes wrote "la Brador" sometimes "Labrador". In 1704, Fort Pontchartrain to be erected at Brador, under the direction of

Augustin Le Gardeur de Courtemanche Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche (December 16, 1663 – June 29, 1717) was a Canadian soldier and ambassador from Labrador. Biography Born in Quebec City on December 16, 1663, Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche joined the military in 1690, ...

. Formerly, Blanc-Sablon and its surroundings had served as a maritime and military vocation. In the municipality of Blanc-Sablon, several names use the term "Brador": village, town, bay, river, lake, bay, "Hills Brador", the "Bird Sanctuary of Brador Bay" and "biodiversity reserve Hills Brador". The name "Brador River" was made official on Dec. 5, 1968, at the Bank of place names in the Geographical Names Board of QuébecGeographical Names Board of Québec - Bank of place names - Toponyme: "Brador river".

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