Hampden

History

Hampden was named after English politician John Hampden. Many communities were resettled into Hampden after the island was brought into Canadian Confederation on 31 March 1949, where the Joey Smallwood government pushed a resettlement plan that involved over 300 villages and 28,000 people. Hampden was and still is to this day a logging and lumber town. Over the years many companies cut logs for lumber mills and pulpwood for paper mills. Thousands of cords of wood were boomed to the Bottom (furthest point south in White Bay) at an early time (1920s - 1930s) it was debarked and loaded aboard ships for England for the International Paper Company of Newfoundland. Later (1940s - 1970s) it was loaded on to trucks and brought to the Humber River at Riverside where it was dumped into the river and floated down the river to the Bowater’s Paper Mill in Corner Brook. To this day Hampden still relies of the logging industry as it main source of employment, Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Limited is the largest employer in the White Bay South area, employing forty plus employees year round.

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  96
• Great Black-backed Gull

  Larus marinus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  83
• American herring gull, Smithsonian Gull

  Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 · Aves
  78
• Ring-billed Gull

  Larus delawarensis Ord, 1815 · Aves
  53
• Greater Yellowlegs

  Tringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  52
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  52
• Iceland Gull

  Larus glaucoides B.Meyer, 1822 · Aves
  49
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  49