Okak
Vanished settlement · Canada
- Abandoned
- 1919
- Founded
- 1776
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 57.562, -61.984
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
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.