L'Anse-au-Clair is a town in the Labrador portion of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Touching the small portion of LabradorâÂÂs southern ocean, the town has a population of 219 in the 2021 census, up from 192 in 2011.
It is located on Route 510, about from the QuebecâÂÂLabrador border. It was established by the French in the early 18th century. People began to settle in the L'Anse-au-Clair area after the QuebecâÂÂLabrador border dispute was settled in 1825.
The settlement of L'Anse au Cotard, an area near the town, is attributed to Jersey fishermen and merchants coming to the region, with the earliest known permanent resident being James Dumaresq from the Dumaresq family who decided to build a home in the region around 1810. Descendants of Dumaresq and other Jersey families still inhabit the region and Canada as a whole.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, L'Anse-au-Clair had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.