Schefferville is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec. Schefferville is in the heart of the Innu territory in northern Quebec less than 2 km from the border with Labrador. It is located in the vicinity of the old Hudson Bay Company trading Post, Fort Naskapi,on the shores of Petitsikapau Lake. Schefferville was established as a town to support the mining of the extremely rich iron ore deposits in the area. The original settlement was called "Burnt Creek" and was located some miles to the north of the current location of Schefferville. When the plans were drawn up for the town, it was originally called, "Knob Lake" after a prominent iron ore outcropping visible on a prominent hill - south of the town site. The name Schefferville was adopted in honour of (Roman Catholic) Bishop Lionel Scheffer, O.M.I., who served as the Vicar Apostolic of Labrador from March 14, 1946 until his death on October 3, 1966. The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ... The Innu are the indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula in Eastern Canada. ... This article is about the region in Canada. ...