Sloop Harbour Point

Sloop Harbour Point marks the northeastern end of Brig Harbour Island on the Labrador coast, near the waters of Groswater Bay. Here a chain of islands and inlets lies between the mainland and the open Labrador Sea. Inuit communities travelled and hunted along this coast, exchanging marine products with European visitors. During the eighteenth century the Labrador fishery expanded as vessels came north for cod, while merchants also sought salmon, sealskins and oil.