St. Lawrence, Newfoundland
| St. Lawrence | |
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| Town | |
 St. Lawrence
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| Coordinates: 46°55′28″N 55°23′34″W / 46.92444°N 55.39278°WCoordinates: 46°55′28″N 55°23′34″W / 46.92444°N 55.39278°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Government | |
| • Mayor | Paul Pike |
| • MHA | Carol Anne Haley |
| • MP | Judy Foote |
| Elevation | −23 m (1-80 ft) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 1,192 |
| Time zone | Newfoundland Time (UTC-3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | Newfoundland Daylight (UTC-2:30) |
| Area code(s) | 709 |
St. Lawrence is a Canadian town located on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. As of 2016, the population of St. Lawrence was 1,192, down from the 2011 Canadian Census of 1,244. Popular family names in the town include Slaney, Pike, Lake, Drake and Edwards.
St. Lawrence was named by a group of shipwrecked sailors who came to the New Found Land in 1583 with Sir Humphrey Gilbert. During the expedition their vessel, “HMS Delight”, sank off Sable Island. Sixteen of her crew drifted in a lifeboat for 7 days before coming ashore on the South Coast in Little St.Lawrence. Richard Clarke, the Master of the doomed ship, wrote a dramatic account of the event in 1584.1 <"Richard Clarke's Account of the Casting Away of the Delight"(1584) in David B.Quinn Ed The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert,Vol.1,London:Hakluyt Society,1940 p423-26>.
The area was known to English, French, and BASQUE fishermen in the 1500s and there were a few French stages at St Lawrence itself, for the early French ship fishermen for the fishing season.2 <Prowse, D. W. (1896), A history of Newfoundland from the English, colonial, and foreign records (A history of Newfoundland, from the English, colonial, and foreign records. ed.), London: Eyre and Spottiswoode p.183> However, settlement actually began in the early to mid-1700's. "In the Parliamentary Report of 1718 it is stated that nearly all the Poole vessels engaged in the Newfoundland trade were built in the Colony. Spurriers built barques, brigs,and ships at Oderin, Burin, and St. Lawrence".3<D.H. Prowse. p165.> Captain James Cook surveyed the St. Lawrence area and vicinity in 1765. St. Lawrence was a hive of activity in 1784 when Newmans opened its store in Little St. Lawrence and business was soon rivalling that of St. John's (the capital city.)4<K. Matthews, “NEWMAN, ROBERT,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 25, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/newman_robert_5E.html.> Newmans closed its Little St. Lawrence store in 1811.
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