Tors Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Tors Cove is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, approximately 40 kilometres south of the St. John's, the provincial capital, along Route 10 (Irish Loop Drive/Southern Shore Highway). It was formerly named Toads Cove.[1]
Geography
Tors Cove is in Newfoundland within Subdivision U of Division No. 1.[2]
Demographics
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tors Cove recorded a population of 300 living in 136 of its 257 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2011 population of 449. With a land area of Script error: No such module "convert"., it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2016.[3]
Economy
Throughout its history, its economy was sustained through the cod fishery and was the site of a codfish processing plant until the moratorium in 1991. It is also the site of a hydroelectric dam (located on Tors Cove pond) and power plant.
Attractions
Tors Cove is on the East Coast Trail.[4]
Government
Tors Cove is a local service district (LSD)[5] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[6] The chair of the LSD committee is Hannah Power.[5]
See also
- La Manche Provincial Park
- List of designated places in Newfoundland and Labrador
- List of local service districts in Newfoundland and Labrador
References
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External links
- 18-minute video showing 11-year-old Julie O'Brien describing old times in the village National Film Board of Canada 1981
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