# Codroy Valley

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{{Short description|Valley in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada}}
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thumb|right|300px|The Codroy River
The '''Codroy Valley''' is a valley in the southwestern part of the island of [Newfoundland](/source/Newfoundland_(island)) in the [Canadian province](/source/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada) of [Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Munden|first=Carl|title=Mailed from The Rock: The Codroy|journal=PHSC Journal|publisher=Postal History Society of Canada|volume=134|issue=June 2008}}</ref>

The Codroy Valley is a [glacial valley](/source/glacial_valley) formed in the [Anguille Mountains](/source/Anguille_Mountains), a sub-range of the [Long Range Mountains](/source/Long_Range_Mountains) which run along Newfoundland's west coast fronting the [Gulf of St. Lawrence](/source/Gulf_of_St._Lawrence). The valley runs inland at a perpendicular angle from the coast along a bearing of 45° (northeast), carrying the Codroy River and its tributaries to the gulf.

The mouth of the Codroy Valley at the coast is extremely windy and is the location of [Wreckhouse](/source/Wreckhouse%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), so-named by employees of the historic [Newfoundland Railway](/source/Newfoundland_Railway) for the wind's ability to blow railway cars off the tracks.

The area was settled families of [French](/source/Franco-Newfoundlander), [Irish](/source/Irish_Newfoundlander), [Mi'kmaq](/source/Qalipu_Mi'kmaq_First_Nation_Band), [English](/source/English_people), and [Scots](/source/Scottish_people). The Scots were [Highlanders](/source/Highland_Scots) who arrived between the 1840s and 1860s, most of them secondary migrants who had been living on [Cape Breton Island](/source/Cape_Breton_Island) in [Inverness County](/source/Inverness_County%2C_Nova_Scotia), [Nova Scotia](/source/Nova_Scotia).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/scottish-settlement.php|title=Scottish Settlement Patterns in NL}}</ref>  Of the roughly 171 households at Codroy Valley in the 1880s, 67 (38%) belonged to people of Scottish descent.<ref>Ommer 1973</ref> The [Scottish Gaelic language](/source/Scottish_Gaelic_language) was once commonly spoken here, with some families continuing to speak Gaelic at home until the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite thesis|url=http://research.library.mun.ca/1319/|title=Some aspects of the Scottish Gaelic traditions of the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland|year=1975|publisher=Memorial University of Newfoundland|type=masters|last1=Bennett|first1=Margaret}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [Stormy Point](/source/Stormy_Point), the headland just north of the valley's mouth

==Further reading==
* [Margaret Bennett](/source/Margaret_Bennett_(writer)), ''The Last Stronghold: Scottish Gaelic Traditions in Newfoundland (Canada's Atlantic Folklore-folklife series)''. Canongate Books Ltd, Breakwater Books Ltd, 1989 / {{ISBN|0-86241-197-1}} - {{ISBN|978-0-86241-197-8}}, {{ISBN|0-920911-38-2}} - {{ISBN|978-0-920911-38-9}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.communityaccounts.ca/CommunityAccounts/OnlineData/acct_selection.asp?menucomval=ccs4a&comval=ccs4a&whichacct=wellbeing&printval=1  Community Accounts - Codroy Valley - Well-Being Account]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Category:Valleys of Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Canadian Gaelic
Category:European-Canadian culture in Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:Mi'kmaq in Canada
Category:First Nations in Atlantic Canada
Category:Scottish diaspora in Canada
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