Grand Lake

Grand Lake receives the Naskaupi River as it flows southeast through the Labrador interior. At the lake's eastern end, a short chain of waters leads to Lake Melville and the long inlet opening onto the Labrador Sea. The lake formed part of an Innu route between the interior and the coast, used for journeys through a country of rivers, lakes and portages. Near its outlet, Innu families gathered around salmon-rich waters, and from the 1740s fur traders also came to the area.