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Schefferville

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Schefferville, town (1991 pop. 303), E central Que., Canada, on the Labrador border. With the closure of the Iron Ore Co. in 1983, the town shut down almost completely.
Schefferville 

a city in Canada, on the Labrador Peninsula, in the province of Quebec. Population, 3,300 (1971). Schefferville was founded in 1954 in connection with the development of the Knob Lake iron ore deposit. The ore is shipped out by the railroad that connects Schefferville with the port of Sept-Îles.



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The first phase of development of the Schefferville project in Newfoundland and Labrador envisages the initial production of about 500,000 tonnes of iron ore in 2009, building up to 3m tonnes in 2011.
Every household in the community, located near the mining town of Schefferville, Que.
Passenger rail service is the only surface transportation mode available to Schefferville and is used by First Nations people in the area to travel to their traditional hunting, fishing and trapping territories on a year-round basis.
 
 
 
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