Elliston is an incorporated fishing
settlement situated on the
Bonavista Peninsula
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of
Newfoundland
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,
Canada
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. Incorporated in 1965, the town of Elliston was once called Bird Island Cove and it is composed of a number of communities, North Side, Noder Cover, Elliston Centre, Elliston Point, Porter's Point, Sandy Cove, The Neck and
Maberly. Elliston is known as the Root Cellar Capital of the World and has claimed that title from the 135
root cellar
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s that exist in the community.
Elliston was renamed from Bird Island Cove by Reverend
Charles Lench to honour the first
Methodist
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Missionary, Reverend
William Ellis, to this community. The name Bird Island Cove was used since the early 17th century and it gets its name from two small islands, North and South Bird Island, that lie off the south entrance of this cove.
In 2013, parts of the movie
The Grand Seduction were filmed at Elliston.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, Elliston 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
*
List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is the ninth-most populous province in Canada, with 510,550 residents recorded in the 2021 Canadian Census, and is the seventh-largest in land area, with . Newfoundland and Labrador has 278 municipalities, including 3 ...
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List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
https://www.townofelliston.ca/1about/inquire.html
https://www.townofelliston.ca/2visit/loop.html#ptrain
External links
*
Town of EllistonElliston - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol.1, p. 772-774.
Populated coastal places in Canada
Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
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