Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in the Canadian province of

Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic Canada, Atlantic region. The province comprises t ...

. It is located within a 10 minutes' drive from downtown St. John's preceding the Town of Torbay on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula.

History

The area encompassing Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove is within the boundaries of lands granted to the

London and Bristol Company The London and Bristol Company came about in the early 17th century when English merchants had begun to express an interest in the Newfoundland fishery. Financed by a syndicate of investors John Guy, himself a Bristol merchant, visited Newfoundl ...

in 1610. In 1627, the company experienced financial difficulties and evidently made lands available to private groups. The name ''Logy Bay'' itself first appears on Southwood's map of = 1675, however, permanent settlement did not begin until the early 19th century. The earliest record of settlement in Logy Bay is from 1818 when Luke Ryan, a fisherman, sought permission to build
fishing room
The earliest records of settlement in Outer Cove and Middle Cove appear around 1827, but occupation here most likely predated this year. The early settlers of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove were immigrants predominantly from the

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counties of Kilkenny,

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Wexford Wexford () is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 ...

, and Cork. In particular, the town of

Inistioge Inistioge (; ) is a small village in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Historically, its name has been spelt as Ennistioge, Ennisteage, and in other ways. The village is situated on the River Nore, southeast of Kilkenny. Situated along the River No ...

in Kilkenny was the origin of most of the pioneers of Logy Bay. These early settlers were attracted to the area by the easy access to the excellent fishing grounds that lay just offshore and by the good farmland that dotted the region. Between 1827 and 1830 there were 9 petitions for land in Logy Bay, 3 in Middle Cove and 30 in Outer Cove. By the 1850s, the

had established themselves and proceeded to shape the landscape. Irish heritage is still strong today and can be seen in such things as religion, folkways, music, and

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Climate

Logy Bay-Middle Cover-Outer Cove 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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) with long, cold, and snowy winters, though not very cold by Canadian standards, and short, mild, and rainy summers with cool nights.

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, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer 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.

References

External links

The Town of Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer CoveThe Unofficial Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Web Site Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 3, p. 361-362.
{{Authority control Populated coastal places in Canada Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

History

Climate

Demographics

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