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Arnold's Cove Heritage Foundation Inc.
  • Home
  • Resettlement
    • The Resettlement Program
    • Our Story
    • Walking Tour App
    • Songs and Stories
  • Drake Heritage House
    • The Drake House
    • History
    • Frank Drake
    • Tours
  • Pieces of our Past
    • Old Arnold's Cove
    • Arnold's Cove Station
    • Churches and Cemetaries
    • Soldiers/War Memorial
    • Rug Hooking
    • Stages and Stores
    • Boats of Placentia Bay
    • Artists and Authors
    • Schools
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Our Story

Arnold's Cove has it's own unique stories of Resettlement.   In a matter of a few years,  During the period of Resettlement, which spanned between 1950 - 1969, Arnold's Cove welcomed a total of  122 families and 103 houses from many communities of Placentia Bay.   


Interactive Map of Resettled Houses

Communities Resettled to Arnold's Cove

Spencer's Cove

 

Situated on the northeast side of Long Island.  It was originally called Paddy Poors' Cove but was renamed in honor of Bishop A.G. Spencer, Newfoundland's First Church of England Bishop. 


Harbour Buffett

  

The community was settled in four areas: the central area of Harbour Buffett (known as North West), North East, Tickles, and Coffins Cove. It is believe that the first permanent settlers arrive in the early Nineteenth Century and settled in the North East.

Port Royal

A resettled fishing community, Port Royal was located on the southeastern side of Mussel Harbour, a 3km –long inlet on the west side of Long Island, Placentia Bay.

Haystack

  

A resettled fishing community, Haystack was located in a sheltered harbour formed by a wedge-shaped peninsula on the northeast coast of Long Island, Placentia Bay, north of Harbour Buffett.

Kingwell

Kingwell was called "Mussel Harbour Arm" when it was first inhabited.  It was a fishing-lobstering-herring settlement on the west side of Placentia Bay on Long Island.

Tack's Beach

Tack's Beach was a fishing community located on Kings Island, the largest of the Ragged Islands in western Placentia Bay.   In early census it was considered to have included Baker’s Cove, Best’s Harbour, Broad Cove, Cooper’s Cove, and Yawl’s Cove.

Port Anne

   

A resettled fishing community, Port Anne is located in western Placentia Bay, on Burnt Island in Nonsuch Arm, west of Petite Forte (Known as Burnt Island until a name change in the 1950s (after the newborn Princess Anne).

Woody Island

  

It was settled at Old Cove (on the north side facing nearby Sound Island) and on its west side, at Jean Cove, which faces the mainland across a 1 km wide reach and is further sheltered by several islets. 

Monkstown

Originally known as Paradise Sound, Monkstown was renamed in 1902 to reflect the fact that the majority of its inhabitants had the surname Monks.

Brule

Bruley is situated on Merasheen Island, across from Spencer's Cove, it was a fishing community made up of three parts:  Big Bruley, Little Bruley, and Crab's Hole.

Isle Valen

Isle Valen was an important trading centre when Spurrier and Company set up business there around 1800.  

Bar Haven

 Bar Haven was first called Barren Island until 1911.    First records of the community suggests it may have been settled in the early 1800s when Spurrier and Company was expanding into the bay.

Best's Harbour

Best's Harbour was formerly named Morton's Harbour from the time it was settled in early 1880s.  It is part of the community of Tack's Beach, on King's Island (the largest of the Ragged Islands)

Davis Cove

  

A resettled fishing settlement that was located on the west side of Placentia Bay in a small sheltered Cove, Davis Cove, which was probably named for an early settler, was first reported in the census (1845) with a population of thirty-five.

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Spencers Cove (pdf)Download
Harbour Buffet (pdf)Download
Port Royal (docx)Download
Haystack (pdf)Download
Kingwell (pdf)Download
Tacks Beach (pdf)Download
Port Anne (pdf)Download
Woody Island (pdf)Download
Bruley (pdf)Download
Isle Valen (pdf)Download
Bar Haven (pdf)Download
Davis Cove (pdf)Download
Harbour Islands (pdf)Download
Sound Island (pdf)Download

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