Reprinted from Decks Awash, Volume 15, Number 6
November – December 1986
Photographs from MUN Digital Archives
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Ivany’s Cove
This small community at the head of Southwest Arm apparently did not exist as early as other settlements. This may have been because it was so far from the inshore fishing grounds. Albert Bailey, the community’s oldest resident, remembers there were three families already in Ivany’s Cove when he was born in 1918. It has never been a large community, and the highest population was listed as 44 in 1935, when the settlement was equally divided among the United and Church of England denominations.
Albert Bailey’s store – still in place but no longer in use.
Although most families still do a little jigging for cod, there have been no fishermen in the community since the first residents arrived in the early 1900s. The railway, woods work and road construction have provided jobs for local residents, and the children and grandchildren of the original families are building new homes. This has brought the population back up to 43 in 15 families. The community has never been large enough to justify its own church buildings. The Anglican and United Church congregations have always walked the short distance to Northwest Brook to attend services in the churches there.
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See also the community history under Communities
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Transcribed by Wanda Garrett
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