Port au Port West-Aguathuna-Felix Cove is a small
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located on the
Port au Port Peninsula of the Island of
Newfoundland,
Canada
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. The nearest large service area is
Stephenville.
The town was created in 1970 by amalgamating the small villages of Port au Port West, Aguathuna and Felix Cove. Its
post office
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began on September 11, 1964. The first Post Mistress was Reisa Gabriel.
Aguathuna
The area grew from workers at the nearby
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
mine site at Jack of Clubs Cove. The
Dominion Iron and Steel Company
The Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (also DOSCO) was a Canadian coal mining and steel manufacturing company.
Incorporated in 1928 and operational by 1930, DOSCO was predated by the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO), which was a merger o ...
opened a quarry there in 1911. The quarry's manager, Arthur House, wanted to rename the cove from Jack of Clubs Cove as it would never have been treated with serious respect. The then Archbishop
M.F. Howley suggested ''Aguathuna'' believing it to be a
Beothuk
The Beothuk ( or ; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of indigenous people who lived on the island of Newfoundland.
Beginning around AD 1500, the Beothuk culture formed. This appeared to be the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples w ...
word for ''white stone''. That name was chosen by residents over the other alternative, ''Limeville''.
[Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume Four, (p 386 - 388) ]
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Port au Port West-Aguathuna-Felix Cove 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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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 ...
References and notes
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Populated coastal places in Canada
Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador