Seal Cove (Fortune Bay) is (obviously) on Fortune Bay, on the southern coast. Specifically, it is located on the south side of the Connaigre Peninsula, at the bay's western extremity. The following is a description of the community that comes from the ENL:

A modern visitor cannot help but be struck by the appearance of the community: it is flat, in an area in which the terrain generally runs from quite hilly to downright mountainous. The open meadows of Seal Cove make the hulking woodpiles outside each home stand out as well all the more because the surrounding country is remarkably treeless.

Utilized by Francophone fishermen as a harbour, Seal Cove, the community, was not actually "settled" until after the French were forced to leave the area in 1763.

According material included in the ENL, the "English settlement at Seal Cove is said to date from about 1837 and the arrival of one Joseph Loveless, who moved there from Grand Bank Seal Cove first appears in the Census in 1845, with a population of six (although the 1836 enumeration had recorded 12 people at "Swill Rock").

Loveless raised a large family at Seal Cove and in 1994 the majority of people in the community bore that family name [according to the website Canada411.ca, there are still 43 families by the name of Loveless that have a phone listed]".

Incorporated in 1972, the population of Seal Cove, in 2016 was recorded to be 242, an 8.0% decrease from the 263 reported in 2011.

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/SealCoveFortuneBay