quirpon

Updated: May 23, 2025

This instrument ignored our contention that Article 3 of the treaty of 1783 was of perpetual obligation, and restricted our right to fish in shore to the southern shores of the Magdalen Islands, the west and southwest coasts of Newfoundland from the Rameau Islands round to Quirpon Island, and the Labrador coast from Mount Joly northward.

Elisha Benjamin Andrews - History of the United States, Volume 4

You make straight for a great headland jutting out into the Atlantic, when the ship suddenly takes a sharp turn round an abrupt corner, and before you know it, you are advancing into the most perfect of landlocked harbours. A great cliff rises on the left, Quirpon Point they call it, and clinging to its base like an overgrown limpet is a tiny cottage, with its inevitable fish stage.

Anne Grenfell - Le Petit Nord : or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour