Comfort Cove-Newstead is a small fishing community located outside Campbellton, on the east coast of

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, (on the Bay of Exploits). It has a recently renovated town hall, a fire department, a corner store with post office, two churches, and other services including a fish processing plant and a vegetable farm. There are many services such as a playground, town hall, community center, fish plant, fire hall, local store, vegetable farm and more. The children in this town, along with those from Campbellton,

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, Loon Bay and Michaels Harbour attend a k-9 school in the Campbellton and high school in

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. There are about 248 private dwellings, in Comfort Cove-Newstead, covering a land area of about 29.83 square km. There is a

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place of worship, a United Church, and Cull's Point Cemetery there.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Comfort Cove-Newstead 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.

Climate

References

Populated coastal places in Canada Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub