Bradelle Valley

Bradelle Valley is an undersea feature in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, among the banks and channels of the southern gulf. The waters above it connect the coasts and islands of a broad maritime region.

Mi'kmaq communities travelled and fished around the gulf and its islands. From the sixteenth century European fishing vessels also crossed the Atlantic to seek cod in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, trade and alliances linked Mi'kmaq communities with French traders and Acadian settlements, while France and Britain contested control of the surrounding coasts.