Queen's Cove: Settled around the late 1860s or early 1870s, the community was originally called Southern Bight.

Around the turn of the century, it was renamed as Queen's Cove to honour Queen Victoria who was the reigning monarch at the time.

Inshore fishing, farming, lumbering/logging were the main source of employment in the Cove.

Located south of Clarenville, according to local lore, the community was named in 1860s by a local fisherman, by the name of Goobie from Old Perlican.

According to the material contained in the ENL by the 1880s one of Goobie's sons had established a sawmill in the area, while another son had built a schooner for the Labrador fishery, "which became the main means of prosecuting the cod fishery for Queen's Cove residents".

Over time, "land was cleared for homes, gardens and livestock on the sloping ground to the cast of the Brook [Queen's Cove is in the valley of Southern Bight Brook]".

It was in 1884, that the community first appears separately in the Census, recording a population of 43, "most of whom spent the summer on the Labrador and were working in the woods in the winter".

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

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