Bauline: Located north west of Torbay, one can head back out to caster shore of Conception Bay via Route 21.
There one comes to a town with a very picturesque town with an "odd" name, at least odd to the car of some. Bauline is believed to be named after Baleine, a bay on the coast of the Island of Sark, part of the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France, which it is said to resemble.

According to information presented in the ENL, Bauline first appears in the 1864 Census (at which point it was recorded as Baline) with a total population of 42: "Many of the early settlers, such as the Kings (a name recorded in Broad Cove, Conception Bay as early as 1776), Whelans, Butlers and LeGrows (recorded in Torbay before 1794 and in Portugal Cove by 1830) came originally from such places as Black head and Broad Cove across Conception Bay; this continued to be the early trading pattern.

All were native Newfound landers engaged in the inshore fishery". It is reported that the settlement grew steadily and had a population of 263 by 1935, and "by that time salmon was an important fishery and Bauline still supplied... "the first [codfish] to arrive each summer in the St. John's market."

The population of Bauline continued to enlarge to the point that there were 297 residents in 1971. However, by 1976 it had declined to 163 by 1976 as "residents left to live nearer their jobs".

More recently the population of the town in 2016 was recorded as being 452, a 13.9% increase from the 397 recorded in 2011.

The steady increase in population is undoubtedly due to its close proximity to the provincial capital and the increased opportunities for work.

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

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