Comfort Cove-Newstead is a small fishing community located outside
Campbellton, on the east coast of
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
,
Canada
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, (on the Bay of Exploits).
It has a recently renovated town hall, a fire department, a corner store with post office, two churches, and other services including a fish processing plant and a vegetable farm.
There are many services such as a playground, town hall, community center, fish plant, fire hall, local store, vegetable farm and more. The children in this town, along with those from Campbellton,
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 ...
,
Baytona
Baytona is a small rural community found in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated off of Route 340, which runs from Lewisporte to Twillingate island, aptly named "Road to the Isles". A bay separates Baytona from a neighboring town called B ...
,
Loon Bay and
Michaels Harbour attend a k-9 school in the Campbellton and high school in
Lewisporte
Lewisporte is a town in central Newfoundland, Canada, with a population of 3,288. It is situated in Burnt Bay which opens on to the Bay of Exploits. Lewisporte has a deep water port and related facilities that serve many communities in the re ...
.
There are about 248 private dwellings, in Comfort Cove-Newstead, covering a land area of about 29.83 square km. There is a
Salvation Army
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place of worship, a United Church, and Cull's Point Cemetery there.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Comfort Cove-Newstead 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.
Climate
References
Populated coastal places in Canada
Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
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