Butter Cove: While the origin of the name of the town is not known for certain, there is a good deal that is known about the origin of the town. The SWAHS website give the following history:

Moses Spurrell of Sooley's Cove, near Dunfield, Trinity Bay, and his three eldest sons, David, Urias and Abraham, began fishing at the Heart's Ease Beach area around 1844.

It was there that they came upon the little cove now known as Butter Cove. Since no one was living there, Moses decided to move his growing family to this cove.

It appears that in the spring or early summer of 1845, the family left Sooley's Cove with all their belongings and settled at Butter Cove.

A son, Joseph, was born in 1845 to Moses and Honor after their move. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1847; another daughter, Amelia Ann, in 1849; and the youngest child, Joshua, in 1853.

It wasn't until this birth was recorded in 1853 that the community was officially listed as Butter Cove. Moses' and Honor's sons later married and built their houses at Butter Cove.

The website gives a lot of information about the various families that settled in the cove in the 1800s onward, and while E.R Seary has suggested that the name may have come from the "Butter" family from Devon, who were living in the Bay de Verde area in the 1840s, there is no mention of a "Butter" family among the Hiscocks, the Bakers, the Balsoms, and the Strowbridges, just to name a few.

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

Address of this page: http://nl.ruralroutes.com/ButterCove