St. Bride's () is a town on the

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, Canada. Located 166 km Southwest of the capital of

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, St. John's, St. Bride's is a

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community with a population of approximately 272 people as of 2021. The largest

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ever caught, weighing in at 125 lbs, was landed here in 1905. St. Bride's is the largest community on the

, and serves as an administrative centre. It is home to

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and several businesses and government services. The community is named for the Irish

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, which reflects the community's traditional history of ties to the southeast of Ireland, the

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, and to the

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. It was the location of St. Bride's Radar Station.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, St. Bride's 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

Saint Bride's, Newfoundland and Labrador Populated places in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Newfoundland-geo-stub