Hodge's Cove is a

local service district A local service district is a type of designated place in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. In the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a local service district is a defined area led by an elected committee responsible for the deliv ...

and

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in the

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. It is southeast of

Clarenville Clarenville is a town on the east coast of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Clarenville was incorporated in 1951. It is located in the Shoal Harbour valley, fronting an arm of the Atlantic Ocean called Random ...

. Hodge's Cove was settled in 1861 and was first referred to as Hodge's Hole. It is not known for sure, but the settlement's name may have come from visitors who made short trips to the area to cut wood. As early as the 1840s, fisherman from Grates Cove in Trinity Bay came to

Southwest Arm Southwest Arm is an inlet of Random Sound, Trinity Bay, in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Southwest Arm is bordered by a number of small communities called outports. On the north side of the arm are Ivany's Cove, Hillview, Hatchet Cove, and ...

looking for wood. The way office was established in 1884 and the first way master was James Drover. It had a population of 261 in 2016.

Geography

Hodges Cove is located on the southern shoreline of Southwest Arm in a valley with the surrounding hills rising to an elevation of 150 meters. The community features three pebble beaches and two islands locally known as "The little island", which can be accessed by foot at low tide. and "The big island". In the middle of the community contains Hodge's Cove pond, a shallow tidal pond in which its mudflats are a popular spot for birds, especially Canada geese.

Demographics

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by

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, Hodges Cove recorded a population of 261 living in 119 of its 151 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 275. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Government

Hodges Cove is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Cameron Martin.

References

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