Cartwright, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Cartwright incorporated 1956 located on the eastern side of the entrance to Sandwich Bay, along the southern coast of Labrador in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Cartwright has been a settled community since 1775, at the time when Captain George Cartwright for whom the place is named settled there, establishing a fish and fur trading business. Eleven years later he left Labrador, maintaining a business interest there until it was sold to Hunt and Henley in 1815. It was again sold in 1873 to the Hudson's Bay Company and has remained under their ownership ever since.
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