Zoar was a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was settled in 1865 as one of several Moravian Church missions to the Inuit in Labrador, on the so-called "Moravian Coast," but was abandoned in 1889, one of the first such communities to be abandoned. [1]
Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Upper Mississippi River.
Zoar may refer to:
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Luther's Reformation.
Hebron was a Moravian mission and the northernmost settlement in Labrador. Founded in 1831, the mission disbanded in 1959. The Inuit Abraham Ulrikab and his family, exhibited in human zoos in Europe in 1880, were from Hebron.
Hopedale is a town located in the north of Labrador, the mainland portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Hopedale is the legislative capital of the Inuit Land Claims Area Nunatsiavut, and where the Nunatsiavut Assembly meets. As of the 2016 census it has a population of 574.
Grates Cove is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the most northerly community on the Avalon Peninsula, located on the tip of the Bay de Verde Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. Called "the Grates" by John Guy as early as 1612, the origin of the name is unknown.
Gaff Topsail is an abandoned railway settlement located in the interior of Newfoundland, Canada, between the communities of Millertown Junction to the east and Kitty's Brook to the west. The population was entirely composed of railway workers who worked on the Newfoundland Railway and their families.
Jens Haven was a Danish-Canadian Moravian missionary and the prime mover behind the founding of the Moravian missions in Labrador.
Okak is a former community located on Okak Bay in northern Labrador. It was founded in 1776 by Jens Haven, a missionary of the Moravian Church. In 1918, Moravian missionaries brought an outbreak of Spanish influenza that devastated Okak, killing 204 out of a population of 263.
Shekomeko was a historic hamlet in the southwestern part of the town of North East, New York, United States) in present-day Dutchess County. It was a village of the Mahican people. They lived by a stream which Anglo-Americans later named Shekomeko Creek, after their village. The Mahican name probably means 'great village, principal village' she-komeko /sheh-KOM-eh-ko/.
The Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church is part of the worldwide Moravian Church Unity.
Zoar is an unincorporated community located in Sussex County, Delaware.
La Poile is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on La Poile Bay. The community is inaccessible by road and is served by a ferry via a port in Rose Blanche.
Canada Harbour is an abandoned outport community in Newfoundland and Labrador. It was a French fishing station before 1857, settled by the English in 1860, and abandoned in 1969 during the resettlement program.
Alluitsoq, formerly spelled Agdluitsok, is a former settlement in southern Greenland, located on the Alluitsoq or Lichtenau Fjord near Cape Farewell. It is about 13 kilometers from Ammassivik (Sletten), located on the opposite side of the same fjord.
Zoar Moravian Church is a historic church in Laketown Township, Minnesota, United States, near the city of Waconia, Minnesota. It was built in 1863 by a congregation of immigrants from Hopedale, Pennsylvania. It is built in a Greek Revival style, typical of other early public buildings in Minnesota. The steeple was moved forward in 1908 to create a bell tower. The congregation disbanded in the 1940s, but the church is maintained and used by the Waconia Moravian Church.
The Moravian Church Mission Ships were a series of twelve ships that made an annual voyage from London to the Moravian Church mission stations in Labrador every summer for the 156 years between 1770 and 1926. The purpose of the voyages was to supply provisions to the church's mission stations in Labrador and to rotate mission personnel. All but one were pure sailing vessels; the final ship, Harmony #5, had an auxiliary steam engine.
Zoar is an unincorporated community in Pike and Dubois counties, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Division No. 1, Subdivision C is an unorganized subdivision on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division 1 and contains the unincorporated communities of Cape St. Mary's, Cuslett, Gooseberry Cove, Great Barasway, Lears Cove, Patrick's Cove-Angels Cove, Ship Cove and Stoney House.
Coordinates: 56°07′59″N61°23′02″W / 56.133°N 61.384°W
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