Herring Neck: Herring Neck, today is actually a number of continuous communities (i.e., Cobb's Arm, Too Good Arm, Ship Island, Merritt's Harbour, Salt Harbour and Sunnyside).

At one point, according to the ENL the area that is now known as Herring Neck went by the name of Goshen's Arm and the actually name of Herring Neck "designated" what now is Pike's Arm and Green Cove.

According to the ENL, there is some "variation" as to where the name of the town came from: "The name itself is said to have originated in the early fishermen's practice of portaging loads of herring across the narrow neck of Pike's Arm.

Herring abounded off the Arm and were carted across the neck to avoid the journey by sea through the treacherous headwaters of the Arm....

The harbour is a sheltered one, almost landlocked, but the approach is treacherous, safe navigation requiring intimate knowledge of the unseen hazards".

It is believed that French, Portuguese, and possibly even the English fishermen found shelter in "the neck" as far back as the 16th and 17th Century.

The first "white settler, Jimmy Chant, is believed to have settled there in the 1760s.

The population peaked in the 1880s at around 1,000 inhabitants, however, more recently, according to the 2016 census it has dwindled to 20, down from 22 in 2011 (a 9.1% loss).

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

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