St. George's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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St. George's
South Side, Little Bay
Town
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St. George's
Location of St. George's in Newfoundland
Coordinates: 48°25′39″N58°28′40″W / 48.42750°N 58.47778°W / 48.42750; -58.47778
Country Canada
Province Newfoundland and Labrador
Settled18th century
Government
 • MayorDaniel Conway [1]
 • Governing bodySt.George's Town Council
 •  MHA Scott Reid (Lib)
 •  MP Gudie Hutchings (Lib)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total1,139
Time zone UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Area code 709
Highways NL TCH sign.svg Route 1 (TCH)
NL Route 461.svg Route 461
Website St. George's official website

St. George's is a Canadian community in the St. George's Bay on the southwest coast of Newfoundland of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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The community, originally known as South Side or Little Bay has its origins in the French fishery of the seventeenth century when the good natural harbour would attract fishermen to spend the summer in the area and return to France for the winter months. Permanently settled in the eighteenth century, the community remained a fishing village for nearly 200 years until the advent of the railroad. [2]

Mi'kmaq

Mi'kmaq villages in St. Georges Bay and Placentia existed in 1594. [3] : 11  [4] : 220–21  [5] : 80  [6] [7] : 138  Jeannot Pequidalouet - the eastern Mi'kmaq chief of Cape Breton, who had previously overwintered in Newfoundland - began to create permanent settlements in St. George's Bay and Miawpukek in the 1760s. [8] [9] In May 1767 when James Cook was mapping Newfoundland coast, he met a tribe of Mi'kmaq in St. George's Bay. [10] : 12 

Early fisheries

In the seventeenth century the French fishermen spent the summer months in St. Georges harbour and returned to France for the winter. They began to overwinter in the eighteenth century and St. Georges continued to be a fishing village "for nearly 200 years until the advent of the railroad." [2]

After the railroad

The railroad came to Western Newfoundland in 1898, and because of the work that the railway created, as well as access to many different types of goods, many people from outlying communities flocked to St. George's. The town quickly became a major centre in Western Newfoundland. The town became a distributor of goods to the surrounding area and the Port au Port Peninsula. Lumbering, fishing and farming were the primary occupations and lobster plants also opened there. A brewery/distillery also operated there for a short time at the turn of the century. The community also became the seat of the magistrate in the area and a courthouse was constructed.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. George's had a population of 1,139 living in 543 of its 611 total private dwellings, a change of

Attractions

St. Georges once hosted an Annual Blueberry Festival every August at Blueberry Hill which ran for 25 consecutive years . [12]

Sandy Point, located 3.5 kilometres south of Stephenville, is an uninhabited 2,471-acre (1,000-hectare) island of natural wealth in St. Georges Bay. [13]

Black bank is a black sand beach with beautiful tree lined embankments.

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References

  1. ↑ https://townofstgeorges.com/municipality/mayors-message/
  2. 1 2 "Town History", Town of St. Georges, 2016, retrieved August 5, 2016
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  8. ↑ Miapukek First Nation: Indian Act: We Got In, We Could Get Out (PDF). AFOA National Conference. February 25–27, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jeddore, Phil (2001), "Lnu'k Saqmawaq of Taqm Mi'kmaq chiefs of Newfoundland", Miawipukek Aknutmaqn: News and Information from Aosamiaji'jij Miawpukek Reserve, Conne River, Taqm (Newfoundland), retrieved August 5, 2016 March 10, 1996, to April 2001
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  12. ↑ "Attractions", Town of St. Georges, 2016, retrieved August 5, 2016
  13. ↑ "NCC: Sandy Point". www.natureconservancy.ca. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13.

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