Birchy Head, Nova Scotia
Birchy may refer to: * Birchy Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador * Birchy Cove, settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador * Birchy, alternate name of Birchville, California Birchville (until 1853, Johnson's Diggings) is a historic mining and agricultural community in Nevada County, California. Birchville is located about 10 miles northwest of Nevada City and about 2 miles northeast of French Corral. It is situated ...

Birchy Bay
Birchy Bay is a small community found in Notre Dame Bay in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. History The name Birchy Bay is derived from the many birch trees which were found on its shores many years ago. Birchy Bay was first home to the native people of the Island which would have used the river which flows through the community as a source of fresh water and also to procure salmon and trout. Tradition shows that there was a European fisherman shot at but not killed by a Beothuk man who used a decoy to lure the man within shot. The local lookout as known today was also recorded to have been used by the Beothuk and a large pine tree which grew at its summit was relieved of all its bark from the natives climbing to watch over the surrounding land. The first recorded family to come and stay in Birchy Bay was Andrew Canning Sr. a man with unknown origins but came from Barr'd Islands to salmon fish. The family lived on the tilt and latter returned to Fogo Island ...
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Birchy Cove
Birchy Cove is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the Bonavista Bay side of the Bonavista Peninsula, 2.5 km from Newman's Cove, and 8.4 km from the Town of Bonavista. Geography Birchy Cove is in Newfoundland within Subdivision G of Division No. 7. Demographics As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Birchy Cove recorded a population of 20 living in 13 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 30. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. Government Birchy Cove is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Reg Durdle. See also *List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador *List of designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador *List of local service d ...
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