Rural Routes Newfoundland - Barr'd Harbour / St John's Bay

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Barr'd Harbour, A0K 2H0

Newfoundland Tourism Region : Western

Located in St. John Bay, north of Port au Choix, Barr''d Harbour is a fishing community which known to be settled as far back as the late 1800s when, according to D.W. Prowse (1895), cited in the ENI, mentions "a French lobster factory operating at Barred Bay "in St. John's Island" owned by an Anatole Le Moine and managed by a Captain Dameron who built the factory in 1884 and roofed it with tin in contravention of the Declaration of 1783, which forbade the erection of permanent buildings by the French".

According to Brooks (2013) it is widely accepted that "the name for Barr'd Harbour is a descriptive label that comes from the reefs common along the rocky coastline", a reef being defined as a "group of rocks rising to or near the surface of a body of water". He suggests that "barr'd" is a contraction of the world "barred", past tense of the verb, "bar," which can mean "to shut off an opening". Accordingly, in the case of Barr'd Harbour, the harbour is "shut off, or partially shut off, by the reefs that are prevalent in the area".

St John's Bay: In the 1884 publication cited above, the bay now known as St. John's Bay is referred to as St. John Bay:

St. John Bay is comprised between Barbace and Ferolle points, and contains several groups of islands, the largest of which is St. John island, 5 miles from Barbace point.

On the east side of this bay are two remarkable mountains, called the High lands of St. John, flat and steep to seaward. The southern, 2 1⁄2 miles inland is 1,610 feet high, and nothern three-quarters of a mile inland and 1,595 feet above high water.

Used with permission from" Uncovering the Origin 0f 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill

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Nearby:	Eddies Cove West and East, 11km Bartletts Harbour, 15km Castor River South, 14km Castor River North, 15km St. John Island, 13km New Ferolle / Oakbark Cove, 23km Ferolle Point, 23km Reef's Harbour - Shoal Cove West - New Ferolle, 23km Shoal Cove (Plum Point), 23km Hawke's Bay, 24km Port Saunders / Keppel Island / Ingornachoix Bay, 22km Bird Cove, 27km Brig Bay, 29km Port au Choix / Boutitout, 23km Plum Point (Old Ferolle), 31km Gargamelle, 24km Port au Choix National Historic Site, 25km	Blue Cove, 34km Pond Cove, 38km Spirity Cove, 32km River of Ponds, 39km Current Island, 44km Forresters Point, 45km Black Duck Cove (Black Duck Cove), 46km Pidgeon Cove-St. Barbe, 47km St. Barbe, 47km Anchor Point, 51km Deadmans Cove, 53km Bear Cove (Flowers Cove), 54km Salmon Rock, 54km Flower's Cove, 59km Brador Bay Bird Sanctuary, 64km Refuge d'oiseaux de la baie Brador, 64km Nameless Cove, 60km	Mistaken Cove, 61km Site patrimonial de Room's Point, 68km Blanc-Sablon, 69km Savage Cove - Sandy Cove, 63km L'Anse-au-Clair, 72km Job's Room, 73km St. Barbe North Sandy Cove, 66km Archipel-de-Blanc-Sablon, 70km Shoal Cove (East) (Great Northern Peninsula), 66km Bradore-Bay, 73km Brador, 73km Bellburns, 63km White House, 75km Buckles Point, 75km L'Anse-Amour, 74km Davis House, 74km

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