Cow Head (town)

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Cow Head
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Cow Head
Location of Cow Head in Newfoundland
Coordinates: 49°55′00″N57°48′00″W / 49.9167°N 57.8°W / 49.9167; -57.8 Coordinates: 49°55′00″N57°48′00″W / 49.9167°N 57.8°W / 49.9167; -57.8
CountryCanada
Province Newfoundland and Labrador
Area
[1]
 • Land17.84 km2 (6.89 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [2]
 • Total398
Time zone UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Area code 709
Highways NL Route 430.svg Route 430
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Cow Head Lighthouse in 2013
Coordinates 49°55′12.28″N57°49′31.89″W / 49.9200778°N 57.8255250°W / 49.9200778; -57.8255250
Constructed1905
Foundationconcrete base
Constructioncast iron tower
Automated1952
Height5.5 metres (18 ft)
Shapecylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markingswhite tower and lantern, red trim
OperatorTown of Cow Head [3] [4] [5]
Heritagemunicipal heritage site  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Deactivated1988
Focal height43 metres (141 ft)
Range15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic F W

Cow Head is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 478 in the Canada 2016 Census. [1]

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The Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum (c. 1941) in Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. [6]

Cow Head is home to one of the longest sandy beaches in Newfoundland as well as a large area of sand dunes. It also has panoramic views of the Long Range Mountains of Gros Morne. An interesting geologic feature found at Cow Head is a section of the former continental margin of Laurentia which dipped into the Iapetus ocean. [7]

There is a walking trail leading to a lighthouse constructed in 1909 on the summer side or "head" of Cow Head.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cow Head had a population of 398 living in 184 of its 225 total private dwellings, a change of

Arts and culture

Cow Head is the home to the Gros Morne Theatre Festival. [8]

A new theatre named in honour of nurse, Myra Bennett, is currently under construction and aiming for completion in 2021.

Geology

The Cow Head Group is made up of a series of continental slope strata that contain numerous boulders made of carbonate. These have yielded numerous trilobite fossils and have led to the identification of new species, including Catillicephala cifelli , named after paleontologist Rich Cifelli. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Corrections and updates: Population and dwelling count amendments, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. February 14, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Newfoundland and Labrador". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  3. ↑ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Southwestern Newfoundland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  4. ↑ Cow Head Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 15 February 2017
  5. ↑ List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights . United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Origins" Ron Redfern page 79 ISBN   0 304 35403 1
  8. ↑ "ArtsNL - Theatre Newfoundland Labrador". www.nlac.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  9. ↑ "A new Cambrian catillicephalid trilobite from the Shallow Bay Formation of western Newfoundland, Canada - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica". www.app.pan.pl. Retrieved 2022-04-01.


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