Editing Labrador (section)

===Central Labrador===
[[Central Labrador]] extends from the shores of [[Lake Melville]] into the interior. It contains the [[Churchill River (Atlantic)|Churchill River]], the largest river in Labrador and one of the largest in Canada. The hydroelectric dam at [[Churchill Falls]] is the second-largest underground power station in the world. Most of the supply is bought by [[Hydro-Québec]] under a long-term contract. The [[Lower Churchill Project]] will develop the remaining potential of the river and supply it to provincial consumers. Known as "the heart of the Big Land", the area's population comprises people from all groups and regions of Labrador.

Central Labrador is also home to [[Happy Valley-Goose Bay]]. Once a refuelling point for plane convoys to Europe during [[World War II]], [[CFB Goose Bay]] is now operated as a [[NATO]] tactical flight training site.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/natos-invasion-air-combat-training-and-its-impact-innu |title=NATO's Invasion: Air Combat Training and its Impact on the Innu |date=December 1986 |website=culturalsurvival.org |access-date=2022-01-07 |archive-date=2022-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107005835/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/natos-invasion-air-combat-training-and-its-impact-innu |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/when-outrage-scarce-commodity-low-flying-maneuvers-over |title=When Outrage Is A Scarce Commodity: Low-flying Maneuvers over Innu lands in Labrador |date=December 2000 |website=culturalsurvival.org |access-date=2022-01-07 |archive-date=2022-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107005830/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/when-outrage-scarce-commodity-low-flying-maneuvers-over |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gaudi |first1=John |title=New children's book is based on Innu protests of low-level flying in Labrador |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nutauis-cap-innu-protests-low-level-flying-1.5391228 |publisher=CBC News |date=Dec 14, 2019 |access-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107005829/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nutauis-cap-innu-protests-low-level-flying-1.5391228 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Swardson |first1=Anne |title=Indians in Labrador Press for End to Low-Level Flight Training |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/17/indians-in-labrador-press-for-end-to-low-level-flight-training/e2f06fa6-9a23-4b41-8390-6f1bccbb8a75/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=Nov 27, 2020 |date=March 17, 1994 |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104231309/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/17/indians-in-labrador-press-for-end-to-low-level-flight-training/e2f06fa6-9a23-4b41-8390-6f1bccbb8a75/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was an alternate landing zone for the United States' [[Space Shuttle]].<ref name="STSCanada">{{cite web|title=Transport Canada NASA Space Shuttle Emergency Landing Site Contingency Plan |url=http://www.tc.gc.ca/Publications/en/TP12952/PDF/HR/TP12952E.pdf|publisher=Transport Canada|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517012846/http://www.tc.gc.ca/Publications/EN/TP12952/PDF/HR/TP12952E.PDF|archivedate=17 May 2013}}</ref> Other major communities in the area are [[North West River, Newfoundland and Labrador|North West River]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Watts |first1=Beatrice |title=Cable Car of North River & Sheshatshit |date=1984 |publisher=Them Days (booklet) |pages=8}}</ref> and the large [[Innu]] [[Indian reserve|reserve]] known as [[Sheshatshiu]].<ref name="Reserve Creation at Sheshatshiu">{{cite web |url=https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100018929/1100100018930 |title=Reserve Creation at Sheshatshiu |date=25 May 2021 |publisher=Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada |access-date=7 January 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014042429/https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100018929/1100100018930 |url-status=live }}</ref>