King's Cove: Located west of Bonavista, on the Bonavista Peninsula, just east of Keels, King's Cove was founded by James Aylward, an Irishman from County Cork in 1690, making it, according to Brooks (2013), one of the few Newfoundland towns in the northeast coast that the original settlers were of Irish descent rather than English.

The derivation of the town's name is unknown. One theory is that the town's name is a corruption of "Canning Cove" - the suggestion being that when you say Canning's Cove very quickly and/or repeatedly it sounds like "King's Cove (a bit of a "stretch"?).

The population of King's Cove peaked in the early 1900s. At that time there were 582, but like many of the small fishing villages in the area, over time people left to find work elsewhere (e.g., railway construction in Boston; lumbering "up the bay").

In the 1960s the production, haulage and trucking of pulpwood provided employment for the people of King's Cove. Commercial farming is also a significant contributor to the economy of the area.

In 2016 the population was recorded to be 90, a significant change (18.9%) from the census conducted 5 years earlier that recorded 111 residents.

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

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