Best Things To Know About Avondale Newfoundland and Labrador Canada

As per Canadian Census 1812, population of Avondale Newfoundland and Labrador Canada was only 12 inhabitants. Avondale is a beautiful and a small town which is situated on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

This community is located in Division 1 of Conception Bay at southwestern head. This place is situated 72 km northeast of Placentia and 59 km southwest of St. John’s.

Prior to the 1st January, 1898 Avondale was well known as the Salmon Cove but later on this place was renamed to avoid all of the confusions with 2 more nearby communities with same name in the Brigus Districts and Port de Grave.

Name Avondale was suggested by Rev John Roe, a parish priest who took this name from a Thomas Moore’s poem i.e “The Meeting of the Waters”.

Best Things To Know About Avondale Newfoundland and Labrador Canada

Earliest to the records of settlements per Fishing Room Grants is for John Mahaney in the year 1773.

Settlers to this area were Irish Roman Catholic with a very small number of English and Jersey French. Avondale incorporated communities of Southern Arm, Northern Arm, Gasters and Salmon Cove.

In the year 1863, Anglo American Telegraph Company set up a station which was taken over by Reid Newfoundland Railway Company in 1880s when Newfoundland Railway was built through an area and a station was constructed.

In an addition to this railway station, this place hosted one church, a money order office and post office.

This place functioned as a farming settlement, fishing, lumbering. Population of this place dwindled in early 1900s as people started migrating to the eastern US to find work.

Edward Kennedy was the very first postmaster who came to Avondale in the year 1889 after construction of railway station. CN Rail abandoned all of its railway operations in 1988 on Newfoundland.

Avondale railway remains preserved with a very small display of a locomotive and retired railway cars. Avondale station is one of the very oldest railway station in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Avondale lost around 1/3rd of its population since the year 1976 when Avondale numbered around 937 residents.

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