Pacquet ("hideaway" in French) is a
town
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Origin and use
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in the
Canadian province
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of
Newfoundland and Labrador
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. The town had a population of 164 in 2016, down from 184 in the
Canada 2011 Census.
Located in White Bay, on the
Baie Verte Peninsula
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in northeastern Newfoundland, it was surveyed in 1801 by Capt. Edgell,
Edgell Island
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being his namesake.
It is not known for certain when Pacquet was first settled. A fishing and logging community, it is on what was once part of the French Shore, so it is likely that it was first settled by French-speaking fishermen. Pacquet (then spelled "Paquet") was a base for French seasonal fishermen from about the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Frenchmen continued to visit its sheltered harbour until late in the nineteenth century. The first recorded residents were an elderly man and a young girl, who were there by 1857, probably French and probably left behind over the winter to watch over property for seasonal fishermen. Twelve years later, two Roman Catholic families were in residence, but the population did not grow substantially until the 1880s, when the French officially left the area. In 2019, Pacquet's First United Church was destroyed by fire.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Pacquet 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
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List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is the ninth-most populous province in Canada, with 510,550 residents recorded in the 2021 Canadian Census, and is the seventh-largest in land area, with . Newfoundland and Labrador has 278 municipalities, including 3 ...
CNLR 332/96 - Town of Pacquet Order under the Municipalities Act
References
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Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador