Colinet is an incorporated town located on the northwest arm of
St. Mary's Bay in
Newfoundland and Labrador
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Canada
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Geography
Colinet is notable for two rivers, the Rocky and the Colinet, which enter the sea in or near the town.
The
Rocky River has a man-made salmon ladder spanning the waterfalls at its mouth. Originally not a salmon river because of those falls, the river was seeded with salmon fry in the mid-1980s. The salmon began using the man-made ladder to bypass the falls in 1987. In 2002, the river opened to recreational anglers, making it Atlantic Canada's newest salmon river.
Climate
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Colinet had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of .
With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
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St. Mary's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)
St. Mary's Bay is one of many bays in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, where bay is taken as a regional subdivision, somewhat along the lines of county divisions (Newfoundland, a largely maritime society, lacks counties). It is th ...
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Placentia
References
External links
The Making of a Salmon River: Rocky River, St. Mary's BayColinet - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 1, p. 477-478.
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Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador