Fortune Harbour

Fortune Harbour or Fortune Harbor is a designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Fortune Harbour

Location of Fortune Harbour in Newfoundland and Labrador

History

The 1913 McAlpine Gazeteer lists the community in Twillingate district:

"FORTUNE HARBOR, a post and money order settlement in Twillingate district. Contains postal telegraph, express, 1 store, 1 Catholic church, Bowring Bros. and Reid Nfld. steamers call during open navigation."[1]

An 1884 pilot guide discusses "Fortune harbor" in Notre Dame Bay:

"Fortune harbor is a land-locked anchorage, situated 2 miles southeastward of Bagg head. Two entrances are formed by Sweeny island, that to the eastward of the island being only 30 yards wide and having a depth of 12 feet at low water. The western entrance is suitable for large vessels with a commanding breeze, but the turns are sharp, the wind is often baffling in the approach, and the squalls heavy, particularly with westerly winds.[2]

Geography

Fortune Harbour is in Newfoundland within Subdivision E of Division No. 8.[3]

Demographics

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Fortune Harbour recorded a population of 78 living in 31 of its 90 total private dwellings, a change of -7.1% from its 2011 population of 84. With a land area of 11.11 km² (4.29 sq mi), it had a population density of 7.0/km² (18.2/sq mi) in 2016.[4]

References

Newfoundland's Grand Banks - 1913 McAlpine Gazeteer - Towns, Villages and Settlements
United States Hydrographic Office (1886). Newfoundland and Labrador, 1884: Supplement No. 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 33.
"Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions, census subdivisions (municipalities) and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Newfoundland and Labrador)". Statistics Canada. February 7, 2018. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
"Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and designated places, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Newfoundland and Labrador)". Statistics Canada. February 7, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2021.

External links

Audio recording of a traditional folktale from Fortune Harbour

49°30′34″N 55°14′16″W

Subdivisions of Newfoundland and Labrador

Subdivisions and
statistical units

Communities

Cities

Local service
districts (LSDs)
and designated
places (DPLs)

Both LSDs and DPLs	Aspen Cove Barachois Brook Bartletts Harbour Bay St. George South Beaches Bear Cove, Northern Peninsula Beau Bois Bellevue Bellevue Beach Benoits Siding Benton Birchy Cove Black Duck Black Duck Brook and Winterhouse Black Duck Cove, Northern Peninsula Black Tickle-Domino Blaketown Boyd's Cove Bridgeport Brig Bay Brigus South Brown's Arm Buchans Junction Bunyan's Cove Burgoynes Cove Burnside-St. Chads Burnt Cove, St. Michael's, Bauline South Burnt Point-Gull Island-Northern Bay Calvert Campbells Creek Canning's Cove Cape Freels North Cape Ray Caplin Cove-Southport Castor River North Castor River South Cavendish Chanceport Charlottetown, Bonavista Bay Cobbs Arm Cottrell's Cove Deadman's Bay Deep Bight Diamond Cove Dildo Dunfield Eddies Cove West Epworth-Great Salmonier Fairbanks-Hillgrade Fairhaven Flat Bay Forest Field-New Bridge Forresters Point Fox Island River-Point au Mal Fox Roost-Margaree Francois Freshwater, Conception Bay Gander Bay North Gander Bay South Garden Cove Georgetown Glovers Harbour Goobies Grates Cove Great Brehat Great Codroy Green Island Brook Green's Harbour Grey River Harbour Mille-Little Harbour East Harry's Harbour Herring Neck Hickman's Harbour-Robinson Bight Hodges Cove Hopeall Horwood Indian Cove Jackson's Cove-Langdon's Cove-Silverdale Jean de Baie La Poile Lance Cove, Bell Island L'Anse aux Meadows to Quirpon Laurenceton Little Harbour (East), Placentia Bay Little Rapids Little St. Lawrence Lodge Bay Loon Bay Lower Lance Cove Main Point-Davidsville Mainland Makinsons Markland Marysvale Mattis Point McCallum Merritt's Harbour Mobile Moreton's Harbour Nameless Cove New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove New Harbour, Trinity Bay Newman's Cove Newville Noggin Cove Norman's Bay Norris Arm North North Harbour, St. Mary's Bay O'Donnells Old Shop Open Hall-Red Cliffe O'Regan's Central Patrick's Cove-Angels Cove Pensons Arm Petit Forte Petley Phillips Head Piccadilly Head Piccadilly Slant-Abraham's Cove Pidgeon Cove-St. Barbe Pleasantview Plum Point Pollard's Point Port Albert Portland Creek Purcell's Harbour Pynns Brook Random Island West Random Sound West Rattling Brook Reefs Harbour-Shoal Cove West-New Ferolle Roaches Line Rock Harbour Searston Sheaves Cove Sheppardville Ship Cove, Northern Peninsula Ship Cove-Lower Cove-Jerry's Nose Smith's Harbour Smith's Sound Sop's Arm South Dildo Southeast Bight Spanish Room Spillars Cove St. Andrews St. Anthony Bight St. Joseph's Cove-St. Veronica's St. Judes St. Patricks St. Teresa Stanhope Stoneville Summerville-Princeton-Southern Bay Swift Current Thornlea Three Rock Cove Tizzard's Harbour Tompkins Tors Cove Upper Amherst Cove Upper Ferry Valley Pond Virgin Arm-Carter's Cove West Bay Wild Cove, White Bay William's Harbour
LSDs only	Biscay Bay Deer Park/Vineland Road Hay Cove Lethbridge to Sweet Bay Noddy Bay Quirpon Shoe Cove (Notre Dame Bay) Straitsview
DPLs only	Bloomfield Brigus Junction Britannia Capstan Island Champneys-English Harbour Croque Deep Bay Fortune Harbour Frederickton Gambo George's Brook Goulds Grand Beach Grand Bruit Harbour Round Humber Village Island Harbour Knights Cove - Stock Cove Ladle Cove Michaels Harbour Millville to Cape Anguille Milton Musgrave Harbour Northwest Brook-Ivany's Cove-Queens Cove Sheshatshiu Snook's Arm St. Juliens Stag Harbour Stephenville Crossing Trinity East

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Fortune Harbour

History

Geography

Demographics

See also

References

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