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Red
Head Cove, Bay de Verde, Baccalieu Island
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Red
Head Cove
Red
Head Cove is a tiny community
off Route 70 with spectacular seascapes.
Bay
de Verde
www.baydeverde.com
Sites
of Interest
Bay de Verde Heritage House & Story
Board
Bear’s Cove / Baccalieu Island Look-Outs
Things
To Do
Walking Trails
Bay
de Verde Bay
de Verde is located near the
top of the Bay de Verde Peninsula. The community is famous
for its hospitality and spectacular scenery that includes
whales and icebergs in season.
Early History
Some people believe that the name Bay de Verde is French but it is actually Portuguese. Not only the French and English, but also the Portuguese and Spanish fished in the area during the 16th century. The word ‘Verde' in Portuguese simply means ‘green” so “Bay de Verde” means Green Bay. In November 1610, John Guy reported that some of his men were fishing in the waters off “Green Bay”. In one of his letters. Henry Crout says that the Beothuk sometimes hunted caribou on the hills above Bay de Verde. Bay de Verde
was very important to the English West Country migratory
fishery. French raiding parties destroyed the community
and killed a number of inhabitants in 1696 and 1705.
For more information on the early history of Bay de Verde click here.
The
Bay de Verde Heritage House is a merchant-class Victorian
house built in 1896 which features many exhibits, including
one on the Baccalieu Island Bird Sanctuary.
Bay
de Verde Story Board
Bay de Verde Harbour
Baccalieu
Island Ecological Reserve
Baccalieu
Island Ecological Reserve is
located two miles off shore. It is the largest seabird island
in Newfoundland and supports the greatest diversity of breeding
seabirds in Eastern North America. Baccalieu Island supports
the largest known colony of Leach's Storm-Petrel in the
world, approximately 40% of the global population and about
70% of the western Atlantic population of this species.
Birds
on Baccalieu Island
The
island also supports globally significant populations of
Atlantic Puffin (45,000 pairs - approximately 12% of the
eastern North America population); Black-legged Kittiwake
(13,000 - approximately 5 to 7% of the western Atlantic
breeding population); and Northern Gannet (677 pairs - approximately
1.5% of the North American population).
Bay
de Verde Heritage Association
was formed to preserve and promote heritage resources
in the community of Bay de Verde. Contact: Molly
Walsh - 7 Blundon’s Point, Bay de Verde
NL A0A 1E0 Tel: (709) 587-2766 Fax: 709-587-2049 Web Site:
www.baydeverde.com
 
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