Newfoundland and Labrador
Petty Harbour
The scenic village, looks like it is from an amazing older movie, with lobster pots, boats and all the older style buildings everywhere.
Standing here is like standing in a timepiece stopped somewhere back when fishing was the biggest thing in Newfoundland. Old houses down along the water, lobster pots stacked against the stages, gear that looks to have been there for generations.
People have been living in this cove since at least 1598. The name is worn-down French — Petit Havre, small harbour — and small is right: under a thousand people, four and a half square kilometres of it.
The station at the foot of the hill sent the first hydroelectric power in Newfoundland up to St. John’s on 19 April 1900. It’s still running.
Go into the Mini Aquarium in the fishermen’s co-op. Everything in the tanks was caught just outside and goes back to the water it came from. Seven touch tanks, open daily through the summer.
There are lookouts where you can take the whole place in without getting out of the car, and trails enough if you’d rather walk. And it’s Alan Doyle’s town, if that means anything to you.
Population 947 (2021 Census).
Where everything is
The boundary of Petty Harbour, and every place written up inside it. Tap a pin for the photograph.
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Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census Subdivision Boundary File, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.