Lord's Cove is a

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in the

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. The town had a population of 155 in the

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. Lord's Cove has a rich inshore fishing history and heritage. The town is approximately 65 km southeast of

Marystown Marystown is a town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The provi ...

. On November 18, 1929, a tsunami, triggered by an offshore earthquake on the Grand Banks, killed Sarah Rennie and her three children, Bernard, Rita and Patrick, and destroyed the fishing property and provisions of most of Lord Cove's fishers. Lord's Cove is an ideal birdwatching area with established colonies of

Leach's storm-petrel Leach's storm petrel or Leach's petrel (''Hydrobates leucorhous'') is a small seabird of the tubenose order. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek. ''Hydrobates'' is from ...

and

Manx shearwater The Manx shearwater (''Puffinus puffinus'') is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an ...

nearby at Middle Lawn Island. The colony of Manx shearwaters near "the Cove" is the only known North American colony of the burrowing seabird. On July 20, 2009, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the creation of the Lawn Islands Archipelago Provisional Ecological Reserve which consists of Middle Lawn Island, Offer Island and Columbier Islands. In addition to the large colonies of Manx shearwaters and Leach's storm petrels, the ecological reserve at Lawn Islands will protect a number of additional breeding seabird species, namely herring gulls, great black backed gulls, black guillemots, black-legged kittiwakes, common murres and Arctic terns. Sandy Cove beach is located in Lord's Cove.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Lord's 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.

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1929 Grand Banks Tsunami

The Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami - CBC ArchivesLord's Cove - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 3, p. 374-375.
{{Subdivisions of Newfoundland and Labrador, towns=yes, ICG=yes Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador Fishing communities in Canada

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