Dover is a small incorporated fishing and lumbering village located in a small cove at the head of Freshwater Bay,

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, Newfoundland,

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. Settled in the early 1890s it was originally known as Shoal Bay, presumably from its many shallow coves and inlets in the area. From the 1950s to the 1970 Shoal Bay was referred to as ''Wellington (Dover Post Office)'', whereas the local residents called it Dover. The first census taken of the community was in 1891 when seventeen people were counted, both lumbermen and fisherman. By 1901 the population had grown to sixty-six people and by 1921 it had grown to 203. The 2016 Census reported that its population was 662 people. The mayor of Dover is Tony Keats. Near Dover is a geological feature called the Dover Fault, a major break in the Earth's crust. It is the dividing line for Gondwana and

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that was formed by the Iapetus Ocean. A song in the Broadway musical ''

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'' takes place at the lookout over the fault.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Dover 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.

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History of Dover

Community informationDover - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol.1, p. 608-609.
Populated coastal places in Canada Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub

Demographics

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