Brownsdale, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Brownsdale is a small fishing village on the Trinity Bay side of the northern tip of the Bay de Verde Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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[edit] History
Tradition has it that John Brown was the first settler who had migrated from Old Perlican around 1820. He had established a sawmill there and Brownsdale's first merchant.
The original name of Brownsdale, Trinity Bay was Lance Cove South. It's name was changed because there were two other Lance Coves on the Island. That was changed around 1910.
The first school was constructed at Brownsdale in 1856 where it accommodated twenty pupils. Brownsdales first chuch was Wesleyan constructed in 1870. The current church is United Church of Canada and called The United Church of Brownsdale and was built in 1892. In 1985 a new high school was built and named for a Newfoundland poet E.J. Pratt.
[edit] Towns and Communities nearby
- Sibley's Cove
- Lead Cove
- Old Perlican
- New Melbourne
- New Chelsea
- Hant's Harbour
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