Codroy Valley
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The Codroy Valley is a valley in the southwestern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]
The Codroy Valley is a glacial valley formed in the Anguille Mountains, a sub-range of the Long Range Mountains which run along Newfoundland's west coast fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The valley runs inland at a perpendicular angle from the coast along a bearing of 45° (northeast), carrying the and its tributaries to the gulf.
The mouth of the Codroy Valley at the coast is extremely windy and is the location of Wreckhouse, so-named by employees of the historic Newfoundland Railway for the wind's ability to blow railway cars off the tracks.
The area was settled families of French, Irish, Mi'kmaq, , and . The Scots were Highlanders who arrived between the 1840s and 1860s, most of them who had been living on Cape Breton Island in Inverness County, Nova Scotia.[2] Of the roughly 171 households at Codroy Valley in the 1880s, 67 (38%) belonged to people of Scottish descent.[3] The Scottish Gaelic language was once commonly spoken here, with some families continuing to speak Gaelic at home until the 1960s.[4]
See also[]
- Stormy Point, the headland just north of the valley's mouth
References[]
- ^ Munden, Carl. "Mailed from The Rock: The Codroy". PHSC Journal. Postal History Society of Canada. 134 (June 2008).
- ^ http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/scottish-settlement.php
- ^ Ommer 1973
- ^ Bennett, Margaret (1975). Some aspects of the Scottish Gaelic traditions of the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland (masters). Memorial University of Newfoundland.
External links[]
- Community Accounts - Codroy Valley - Well-Being Account[permanent dead link]
- Valleys of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canadian Gaelic
- European-Canadian culture in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Mi'kmaq in Canada
- First Nations in Atlantic Canada
- Scottish Canadian
- People from Cape Breton Island
- Newfoundland and Labrador geography stubs