Buchans Junction is a
local service district and
designated place
A designated place (DPL) is a type of community or settlement identified by Statistics Canada that does not meet the criteria used to define municipalities or population centres. DPLs are delineated every 5 years for the Canadian census as the ...
in the
Canadian province of
Newfoundland and Labrador
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in the central part of the island of
Newfoundland. It is on the banks of Mary March River near where the Mary March River flows into the northeast end of
Red Indian Lake
Beothuk Lake, formerly Red Indian Lake, is located in the interior of central Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The lake drains into the Exploits River which flows through the interior of Newfoundland and exits into ...
. The community is on a site first known as "Four Mile Siding" on the railway which was constructed in 1900 to connect the community of Millertown to the Newfoundland Railway at Millertown Junction. The site itself became a rail junction in 1927 when
Asarco
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Its three la ...
subsidiary, the Buchans Mining Company, completed a rail link from the newly formed mining town of
Buchans. Ever since 1927, even after the Buchans Railway closed in 1977, the community has been known as "Buchans Junction."
The town is located approximately 42 kilometres southwest of the
Trans-Canada Highway
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on
Route 370. According to
Statistics Canada, it had a population of 79 in 2011, with 45 private dwellings.
Clyde Wells, former
Premier of Newfoundland
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, was born in Buchans Junction in 1937.
Geography
Buchans Junction is in
Newfoundland within
Subdivision A of
Division No. 6.
Demographics
As a designated place in the
2016 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, Buchans Junction recorded a population of 72 living in 38 of its 54 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 79. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Government
Buchans Junction 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 Agatha pitman.
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See also
* List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
* List of designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador
*List of local service districts in Newfoundland and Labrador
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has 175 unincorporated communities that are designated as local service districts (LSDs) for the purpose of providing water, sewer, fire, garbage, street lighting, animal control, and/or road ma ...
References
Designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador
Local service districts in Newfoundland and Labrador
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