Grand Bruit Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
human settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About Grand Bruit
Grand Bruit is on the rugged and sparsely-populated southern coast of Newfoundland, an area whose topography (largely fjords) is ill-suited to road building. A tiny outport reachable only by sea, Grand Bruit relied heavily on the Atlantic cod fishery. The collapse of cod stocks in the early 1990s brought economic decline and local population dropped sharply. The nearby village of Petites, accessible only by sea on the coastline between Rose Blanche and Grand Bruit, was abandoned in 2002. By 2007, the Grand Bruit village schoolhouse was closed. In 2010, the provincial government paid the last inhabitants to leave, implicitly extending a controversial pattern in which three hundred tiny Newfoundland outport villages in awkward, difficult-to-service locations were abandoned asghost townsbetwe
Grand Bruit Travel Guide Sections
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