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Blaketown
Newfoundland and Labradorvillage
Total population
525
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Blaketown is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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History
Blaketown was named after Sir Henry Arthur Blake, Governor of Newfoundland (1887–1889), was settled in 1888 as an agricultural district. Thirty two families from the Conception Bay communities of Upper Island Cove, Bishops Cove, Spaniards Bay and Bay Roberts settled along the Dildo Agricultural Road, a stretch of road between South Dildo and Whitbourne. A Church of England school/church was constructed around 1890 to accommodate an approximate population of 262. The agricultural experiment failed as the land in the area was not suitable for farming and the settlers who had been fishermen were not properly trained in farming. By 1911 the number of full-time farmers in Blaketown had decreased to only three. The lumber industry had taken over a significant part of the economy. In 1955 the Government of Newfoundland attempted to centralize the mink fur farming industry in the province in Blaketown. The Newfoundland Fur Farmers' Co-op was formed to provide feed, from fish and whale meat to supply the numerous fur farms. With the banning of the whale hunt in 1972 the fur industry also collapsed.
Geography
Blaketown is in Newfoundland within Subdivision Y of Division No. 1.
Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Geography
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Nearby places in Newfoundland and Labrador
- South Dildo3.2 mi away · pop. 277
- Whitbourne4 mi away · pop. 955
- Broad Cove5.6 mi away
- Chapel Arm6.7 mi away
- Long Harbour-Mount Arlington Heights12.5 mi away
- Clarke's Beach13.7 mi away
- Bay Roberts14.5 mi away · pop. 5,818
- Conception Harbour15.4 mi away · pop. 743
- Tilton15.8 mi away
- Ballyhack16.6 mi away
- Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview18.4 mi away
- Salmonier18.7 mi away
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
StatCan — Statistics Canada
- SGC code
- 100219
- Wikidata
- Q2378882
Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • StatCan — Statistics Canada — Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) via Wikidata P3012