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Hawke's Bay is a town at the mouth of
Torrent River The Torrent River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows east to reach Torrent Bay on the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere coast of the Abel Tasman National Park. The Abel Tasman Track crosses the river close to its ...
southeast of Point Riche in the
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of
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.


History

The town was named after
Edward Hawke Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781), of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate , he took part in the Battle of ...
by James Cook in 1766. This was to commemorate Hawke's victory in the
Battle of Quiberon Bay The Battle of Quiberon Bay (known as ''Bataille des Cardinaux'' in French) was a decisive naval engagement during the Seven Years' War. It was fought on 20 November 1759 between the Royal Navy and the French Navy in Quiberon Bay, off the coast ...
in 1759. Although Hawke's Bay was used as an enclave during the early struggle for North America by both the
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and French
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, it was not until the early 20th century that Michael Walsh became the first permanent
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. In 1903, a
whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industr ...
station was established on the north side of the bay, but it closed the following year. Sydney Cotton ran the first
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service in Newfoundland to Hawke's Bay. In 1933, pulpwood harvesting was established in the area by the International Pulp and Paper Company. The first Postmistress was Miss Dorothea Desse Hoddinott who died in August 2003.


Climate

Hawke's Bay has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
(
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: Dfb). Summers are mild and rainy while winters are chilly and extremely snowy, with average annual snowfall totaling 360.5 cm (142 inches) . Winter typically begins during November and can last well into April, and can see nightly lows dip well below zero.


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, Hawke's Bay 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 communities in Newfoundland and Labrador


References

{{Subdivisions of Newfoundland and Labrador, towns=yes, ICG=yes Populated coastal places in Canada Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador Fishing communities in Canada