Zoar, Newfoundland and Labrador

Zoar was a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was settled in 1865 as one of several Moravian Church missions to the Inuit in Labrador, on the so-called "Moravian Coast," but was abandoned in 1889, one of the first such communities to be abandoned.[1]

Zoar
Location of Zoar in Newfoundland and Labrador


Zoar in the 1890s

References
  1. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/moravian.html


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