We're home now! According to the odometer on the truck, we drover about 7,500 km over 16 day. Our last 2 days were in Ottawa, celebrating our 5 year anniversary.
Thanks for following our blog, and hopefully this inspires someone else to take a trip to Labrador & NFLD.
But before I finish, an interesting bit of history that I missed. On the drive from Baie Comeau, Quebec to Labrador City, we passed through a weird looking stretch of road.
The highway randomly split into a boulevard, with sidewalks and sections of road with driveways extending from the highway.
This lasted for about 5min of driving, but all around was just bush and no visible sign of any buildings.
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| Town of Gagnon |
It was another company town opened by a mining corporation in the 1960s. There was no road access and the only way of getting there was by plane. At its peak, there was a population of 4000 people, but due to a decline in Iron Ore, the mine closed shop, and the town was completely disassembled in 1985.
The part we drove through was the main boulevard of the town. It was probably one of the most random things to see sidewalks and a boulevard to randomly appear while driving on a gravel road.
There were no signs explaining the history or what this was when we drove through it,
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| the boulevard and sidewalks |
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| Gagnon from 1962 |
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