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Channel-Port aux Basques is a town in Newfoundland. As of 2021, 3,547 people live there.[1]
Channel-Port aux Basques was made by people from the Channel Islands in the 1700s. The words "Port aux Basques" refers to the town being a port that Basque people from France and Spain liked to dock at.
French fishermen stayed in the town after the Treaty of Utrecht. As of 2022, the town is made of multiple small fishing villages. In 1964, the village of Mouse Island joined Channel-Port aux Basques.[2]
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