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Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,118 inhabitants, it is the most populous community in the county municipality. In August 2014, Blanc-Sablon mayor Armand Joncas expressed his personal discontent over neglect of the Basse-Côte-Nord area by the Quebec government, and opened up a channel regarding the secession of the Basse-Côte-Nord to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, even though the Mayor does not have any political or judicial powers to do so. Joncas cited a lack of a continuous road network to Quebec, isolation and lack of interest from the Quebec government and close logistics and cultural identity with the people of Labrador as his reasons. ==Geography== Blanc-Sablon is located on Blanc-Sablon Bay between the municipalities of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and L'Anse-au-Clair, Labrador. Blanc-Sablon is located on the north coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near the entrance of the Strait of Belle Isle. Two significant bays, Brador and Blanc-Sablon, mark its shores and the headland that separates these bays are dominated by Mont Parent, a 100 metre (328 ft) high flat-topped hill named after Martin Parent, a local fisherman in the middle of the 19th century. The estuary of the Brador River and Blanc-Sablon River has a lagoon designated barachois, separated from the sea by a sand or gravel. Seawater enters at high tide. Facing the village of Blanc-Sablon, several islands are dotting the bay, and also in Brador Bay, forming the archipelago of Blanc-Sablon, including: Ile au Bois, Long, Basin and islands Parrots and Greenly housing the Bird Sanctuary of Brador Bay. The municipality of Blanc-Sablon has several spikes protruding into the Gulf of St. Lawrence (listed from east to west): pointe Saint-Charles, pointe à Morel, pointe Lazy, tip "à la chasse", pointe "à la Barque", cap Crow and tip Jones. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blanc-Sablon, Quebec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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