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Freshwater Milestones

The Compass

January 27, 1998 Section B Page 9

1696
Population of 22.
1774
Freshwater appears
on the Lane map.
1796
It appears on the Thoresby Map.
1830
Two Methodist churches
were constructed.
1836
First official Newfoundland
census reports
1844
First school mentioned in the journal of the House of Assembly.
1845
Population 575, Clown's Cove and Otterbury included; 108 fishing boats and two sealing vessels, combined size 140 tons.
1850
In the late I 850s, the community maintained 20 fish­ing rooms and 38 large fishing boats.
1857
Fishermen cured 9,080 quintals of cod; popula­tion of322; community appeared separate in census as Freshwater North and South; two schools in existence.
1869
Eighty-three large boats and four vessels engaged in the seal hunt, employed 107 men.
1883
Created a separate Methodist circuit, Flatrock, Otterbury and Blow-Me-Down included.
1901
Population 534
1910
In the late I9l0, the fishermen's protective union opened a society hall with seating for 100; also a railway station house was built.
1911
Population 565 postal telegraph office opened; Loyal Orange Society built a society hall with seating for 250.
1921
Census reports two furniture factories.
1945
Census reports one dory, four motorboats, one fishing room and several nets and seines in use population 311.
1951
Population 376.
1956
Population 434.
1971
Population 147.
1976
Population 242 - includes Clown's Cove and Crocker's Cove.
1981
Population 209 - listed separately.
1983
Two-room elementary school remains open.

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