Ville de Moisie Quebec

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 was a small fisherman village that had been located at the mouth of the Moisie River

Moisie River

The Moisie River is a river in eastern Quebec. Called and known as the Nahanni of the East, it is one of the most beautiful wild rivers of North America. It flows south from Lake Opocopa near the Labrador border to the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River east of Sept-Îles, Quebec. The town of...

. The village, which was at sea level, was relocated in 1967 after several storm surge floods.

The community became home to RCAF Station Moisie in the late 1950s, when the Royal Canadian Air Force

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 established a Pinetree Line

Pinetree Line

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 early warning radar station nearby. The facility was later renamed CFS Moisie and closed by the early 1990s after defence cutbacks.

Molson Inc.

Molson

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 established a smelter on the other bank of the river in the late 19th century. The company was plowing through three feet of pure iron black sand lying on the beaches as raw material for the forge

Forge

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. Prospectors

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 later explored the region upstream of the river which led to the discovery of large iron

Iron

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 ore deposits around Labrador City

Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador

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 and Schefferville

Schefferville, Quebec

Schefferville is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. Schefferville is in the heart of the Naskapi and Innu territory in northern Quebec, less than 2 km from the border with Labrador on the north shore of Knob Lake. The town has an incorporated area of . It is located within the...

.

Moisie was amalgamated into the city of Sept-Îles

Sept-Îles, Quebec

For the islands in north of Brittany, see JentilezSept-Îles is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec, Canada. It is the northernmost town in Quebec with any significant population...

in 2002.