Elliston is an incorporated fishing

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situated on the Bonavista Peninsula of

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. Incorporated in 1965, the town of Elliston was once called Bird Island Cove and it is composed of a number of communities, North Side, Noder Cover, Elliston Centre, Elliston Point, Porter's Point, Sandy Cove, The Neck and Maberly. Elliston is known as the Root Cellar Capital of the World and has claimed that title from the 135

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s that exist in the community. Elliston was renamed from Bird Island Cove by Reverend

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to honour the first

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Missionary, Reverend William Ellis, to this community. The name Bird Island Cove was used since the early 17th century and it gets its name from two small islands, North and South Bird Island, that lie off the south entrance of this cove. In 2013, parts of the movie

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were filmed at Elliston.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Elliston 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.

References

https://www.townofelliston.ca/1about/inquire.html https://www.townofelliston.ca/2visit/loop.html#ptrain

External links

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Town of Elliston

Elliston - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol.1, p. 772-774.
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