Bauline East: Further south, one comes to Bauline East. Not to be confused with a community with a similar name, Bauline in Conception Bay, the town of Bauline East is believed to come from the French word, baleine, meaning "whale".

Bauline East is sometimes referred to as "Bauline South" (just to confuse people a bit more) as it is "south" of Bauline.

According to Howley (1909) cited in the ENL, Bauline actually refers to a rock that is just offshore: he wrote "a rock which is just barely 'awash' - - or a fleur d'eau, so that [sic] it appears and disappears alterately in the swell of the waves it presents a striking likeness of a whale breaching."

According to Seary (1971) the rock has been referred to as Whaleback on English maps as far back as 1675 and Whales Back Breaker in 1770; the French referred to it as Baline Cove (1669), Aux Balaines (1695) and Baline Bay (1712).

Fished by French and Portuguese migratory fishermen as far back as the 1500s, it was not really "settled" until the 1670s by West Country merchants and their families.

Now Bauline is amalgamated with two other communities to make the larger community of Burnt Cove-St. Michael's-Bauline South.

In the census of 2016, Burt Cove-St. Michaels's-Bauline South had a population of 316, a modest increase of 2.6% from the 308 residents from five years earlier.

Burnt Cove, according to ENL sources, may have "appeared first as a feature called Bassin Cove on a map in 1733". The settlement is first recorded, in the Census of 1836, as Burn Cove, with a population of eighty-five. History suggests that the name St. Michaels was adopted in 1904, when a Roman Catholic church by that name was built in the community.

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

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