Hampden is a

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in the

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. The town has a population of 429. Two islands can be seen from the shore of Hampden, Granby Island and Millers Island. The latter is much closer to the town and is the host of a

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grave-site.

History

Hampden was named after English politician

John Hampden John Hampden (24 June 1643) was an English politician from Oxfordshire, who was killed fighting for Roundhead, Parliament in the First English Civil War. An ally of Parliamentarian leader John Pym, and a cousin of Oliver Cromwell, he was one of ...

. Many communities were resettled into Hampden after the island was brought into

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on 31 March 1949, where the

Joey Smallwood Joseph Roberts Smallwood (December 24, 1900 – December 17, 1991) was a Newfoundlander and Canadian politician. He was the main force who brought the Dominion of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation in 1949, becoming the first premier of ...

government pushed a resettlement plan that involved over 300 villages and 28,000 people. Hampden was and still is to this day a logging and lumber town. Over the years many companies cut logs for lumber mills and pulpwood for paper mills. Thousands of cords of wood was boomed to the Bottom(furthest point south in White Bay) at an early time (1920s - 1930s) it was debarked and loaded aboard ships for England for the International Paper Company of Newfoundland. Later (1940s - 1970s) it was loaded on to trucks and brought to the Humber River at Riverside where it was dumped into the river and floated down the river to the Bowater’s Paper Mill in Corner Brook. To this day Hampden still relies of the logging industry as it main source of employment, Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Limited is the largest employer in the White Bay South area, employing forty plus employees year round.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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

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