Hermitage-Sandyville is a small

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on the south coast of

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, with a population of 404 people in the 2021 Census. The main source of income for the community is provided by the aquaculture industry, the local salmon plant and fishing. The school in Hermitage is John Watkins Academy, where students of both Hermitage-Sandyville and

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attend. The school mascot is the JWA Rebels. Students in this school (currently 37 students) range from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Hermitage is the location of the

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for servicing the isolated outports of

Gaultois Gaultois is a small settlement in the Coast of Bays area in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Gaultois had a population of 100 people as of 2021. The town has a K-12 school called Victoria Academy (as of 2022-23, there are 4 students enrolled), ...

and McCallum.

Name

Channel Island settlers noted the resemblance of an offshore island to Hermitage Rock, a tidal island off the coast of

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, Jersey. This rock was the supposed location of Saint

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's hermitage. Both the town and the bay are named after that rock.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Hermitage-Sandyville 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.

Past Mayors

* Douglas Rose 1997-2013 * Guy Herritt 1994-1997 * Abraham Jensen 1990-1994 * George Fiander 1989-1990 * Wilfred O Roberts 1988-1989 * Calvin Crewe 1983-1988 * Augustus Jones 1976-1982 * Everett Rose 1962-1975

References

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