Notre Dame Bay
Notre Dame Bay (NDB – “Bay of Our Lady”) extends along the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland. The bay is broad and deeply indented. It is noteworthy for having the most irregular coastline and the most islands of all Newfoundland’s major bays. To the west NDB is bounded by Cape St. John, while [...]
>> Read MoreBoyd’s Cove – Stronghold of the Beothuk
The sheltered inlet of Boyd’s Cove (and the twin settlement of Boyd’s Harbour), due east of Chapel Island in central Notre Dame Bay, forms the junction between Route 340 and the Reach Run causeway. The town’s name supposedly honours a New World Island logger by the name of Boyd who harvested timber in the area. [...]
>> Read MoreLewisporte – “Gateway to the North”
Lewisporte, with a population of 3,312 in 2001, is located in Notre Dame Bay on Newfoundland’s Northeast Coast. It was incorporated in 1946 with Albert Anstey as its first Mayor. In the days when most Newfoundland communities were linked only by sea Lewisporte was home to the “bay boat” S.S. Clyde. Found near the head [...]
>> Read MoreWilliam Coaker and the Fishermen’s Protective Union – Part II, Politics and Decline
On the eve of World War I (1914-18) the Fisherman’s Protective Union (FPU), founded by William Ford Coaker, was prospering. It had recruited members from all over the colony of Newfoundland, especially in the heavily-Protestant settlements along the Northeast Coast. The union had also spun off into other ventures aimed at helping fishers break free [...]
>> Read MoreHerring Neck – “Birthplace of the Fishermen’s Protective Union”
Today the community of Herring Neck is rather quiet and seems out of the way, even though linked to the rest of Newfoundland by roads and causeways. For a rich history, though, few communities on Newfoundland’s Northeast Coast can compare to Herring Neck. It is located at the extreme northeast of New World Island (NWI) [...]
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