Rose au Rue, Newfoundland and Labrador

Rose au Rue (sometimes spelled Rosiru) is an abandoned whaling town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that had a small population of 11 in 1891.

Rose au Rue was a major whaling station in Newfoundland for most of the first half of the twentieth century.

[3] The Newfoundland Whaling Co. and its successors seasonally employed as many as 100 men from Merasheen, the Ragged Islands and Port Royal, accommodating them in bunkhouses.

[3] Seeing its eventual fate, Salveston's sold the Rose au Rue operations to Captain Olaf Olsen the following year.

[1] Rose au Rue and its whaling station was mentioned in the popular Newfoundland folk song 'Rocks of Merasheen' by prolific songwriter Al Pittman.

[8] Prior to the construction of the whaling station on the island, there are sporadic entries for Rose au Rue, which small population may have been included in the larger near communities of Port Royal or Indian Harbour and was first recorded as settled in 1884.