The basic aim of the paper is to demonstrate how the field of cultural-historical geography can contribute to a greater understanding of present-day Francophone-Anglophone relations in Québec. The study focusses on a case study of the eastern portion of Québec's Lower North Shore where francophone Catholics, anglophone Catholics and anglophone Protestants have lived in religiously and linguistically segregated outports for nearly 150 years. The article examines genealogical and migration data and briefly studies the institutional history of the Lower North Shore. On the basis of these data, it becomes apparent that the present conflict between French-and English-speaking Labradorians is not so much the result of out-right racism and antagonism, but rather, it is a natural outgrowth of the initial settlement patterns and subsequent socio-spatial evolution of the Lower North Shore.