Cartwright
A Fishing And Trading Community On Sandwich Bay With A Long History From The 1770s, A Harbour Of Small Boats, The Wonderstrands Beaches Nearby, And The Mealy Mountains Behind. A Remote Labrador Community With A Ferry And A Gravel Road · Cartwright, Newfoundland and Labrador
Cartwright is a fishing community of roughly 400 to 500 people on the south-eastern coast of Labrador, beside Sandwich Bay and close to the long sandy beaches known as the Wonderstrands (confirm figures). It is named for George Cartwright, a trader who set up a post here in 1775 and wrote a detailed journal of nearly sixteen years on the coast. The community has Southern Inuit, settler and Innu roots, and it lies in NunatuKavut country, outside Nunatsiavut (confirm). This is not a sightseeing town with a fixed programme: there is no tour desk and no set itinerary. What it offers is a small harbour, wooden fish stages, a bay of seals and salmon rivers, and the Mealy Mountains on the western horizon. Services are an inn or guest house, a store and a few takeaways (confirm). It is reached by a gravel road spur from the Trans-Labrador Highway, by scheduled flight or by the summer ferry, so allow spare days for weather.
Cartwright, a fishing community of about 500 people on the south-eastern coast of Labrador at the end of the Trans-Labrador Highway spur, near the Mealy Mountains; coordinates approximate, Cartwright, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Cartwright keeps no visiting hours because it is a living community. The store, the inn, the town office and any heritage display keep their own hours, often roughly 9 to 5 on weekdays with a short Saturday - confirm by phone. Boat trips run roughly July to September while Sandwich Bay is open, and snowmobile travel on the frozen bay and inland trails runs roughly January to April. Midsummer light lasts late into the evening, while midwinter brings short days. Walking the harbour and the beach costs nothing at any hour.