Rigolet
A Small Inuit Community At The Entrance To Hamilton Inlet, On A Rocky Shore With A Hudson'S Bay Company Post History, A Boardwalk And A Harbour. One Of The Most Isolated Places On The Labrador Coast, Reached By Coastal Ferry Or Flights · Rigolet, Newfoundland and Labrador
Rigolet is a small Inuit community of about 300 people at the narrows where Lake Melville meets the Atlantic on the central Labrador coast, part of Nunatsiavut (confirm figures). The name comes from a French word for a small channel, and the community sits above the strait of Hamilton Inlet, where tides run hard and seals work the current. A Hudson Bay Company post stood here in the nineteenth century, and the old trading history still marks the shore (confirm buildings). This is not a sightseeing town with a fixed programme: there is no tour desk and no set itinerary. What it offers is a quiet shore, a boardwalk above the water, fishing stages, islands and wide sea views. Services are an inn or guest house, a store and a few takeaways (confirm). It is reached by coastal ferry or scheduled flight from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and in winter by snowmobile over the ice of Lake Melville, so allow spare days for weather.
Rigolet, an Inuit community of about 300 people at the narrows where Lake Melville meets the Atlantic on the central Labrador coast, reached by coastal ferry or air; coordinates approximate, Rigolet, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Rigolet 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 once the ice has cleared, and snowmobile travel on the frozen inlet runs roughly January to April. Midsummer light lasts late into the evening, while midwinter brings short days. Walking the boardwalk and the shore costs nothing at any hour.