Hudson Bay Company's Post, Rigolette. 



CHAPTER VI 



DO PEOPLE LIVE IN LABRADOR? 



DO people live in Labrador ? There is a resident 

 white population of some 5,000 at least, scat- 

 tered along the south and east coasts. They call, 

 themselves " Livyeres." North of these are Eskimos, 

 and in the interior Indians, known locally as " Moun- 

 taineers," but actually they are different branches 

 of the old Algonquin race. The last returns were as 

 follows : 



White population of St. Lawrence coast . 



Atlantic coast 



Eskimo on the coast .... 

 Indians of the interior 



4,411 

 2,416 

 1,700 

 4,000 



12,527 



