Everything about Biscay Bay Newfoundland And Labrador totally explained
(})}}, Canada>
| } |
|
Coat-of-arms N/A}}
|
}
| } |
Region}} }
|
(})}}
|
} |
} |
Southern Avalon}} }
|
(})}}
|
| Population |
} |
} |
52}} }
|
(})}}
|
Area
| } |
} km² |
N/A}}
|
| }|}|Founded}} |
} |
} |
1675}}
|
Website
| } |
} |
N/A}}
|
| } |
|
Location map N/A}}
|
Biscay Bay is a town in the
Canadian province of
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Origin of Name
This name appears as early as 1675 in The English Pilot, a guide to navigation. At the time, Basques were called “Biscayans,” so the bay away probably used by the early Basque fishermen.
History
There is very little known about Biscay Bay before 1845, but it's clear that in that year most of the land area of Biscay Bay was owned by William D. Jackson, an English merchant when Thomas Ryan of Trepassey (originally from Ireland) went to live there. Other families at the time were the Easemans and Whites.
Economy
The census of 1857 shows Biscay Bay with 4.5 acres of improved land producing 20 barrels of potatoes and three tons of hay.
When Jackson died, his daughter Caroline decided to go back to live in England so she sold the land to Thomas Ryan and Richard Hartery for 150 pounds.
Residents farmed root crops and hay, raised sheep, cattle and pigs and also fished for cod inshore.
It wasn't until the early ‘30's that the road made much difference to the community and most transportation was by water.
The community averaged 600 quintals of saltfish annually in the late ‘30's and early ‘40's, but 1943 was a good year when 970 quintals were made and sold for $12.50 per quintal.
Very heavy timber grew along the shore of Path End but as the years went by, it became necessary to go farther and farther inland to get wood. Today, Biscay Bay is almost void of trees. The area boasted abundant partridge berries, bakeapples, rabbits, partridges, eider duck, fox, beaver, muskrat and weasel. The coming of the branch railway in 1931 added extra impetus to the area, as had a sawmill in 1920.
Family
The principal names were Ryan, White, Coady and Shea.
Geography
Further Information
Get more info on 'Biscay Bay Newfoundland And Labrador'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://biscay_bay__newfoundland_and_labrador.totallyexplained.com">Biscay Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
