Rose Blanche–Harbour le Cou Town on Newfoundland's southwest shore, about 45 km from Port aux Basques, at the end of Route 470.

[4] From Rose Blanche there is a passenger ferry that services the isolated community of La Poile 35 kilometres (22 mi) to the east.

The first settlers in Rose Blanche arrived and probably settled in 1810, though the French had held seasonal premises in the area in the 18th century.

By the 1869 census, the population had grown to 663, and the area continued to attract new settlers from England and the Channel Islands to participate in the fishery.

He was a sailor and had a great influence on Jimmy Buffett’s life, who wrote the song The Captain and the Kid as a tribute to his grandfather.