Names And Sites

From the Southeast Point:

1. Pond Head

2. Coopers Cove (site of former U.S. Power Plant)

3. Sandy Cove (site of former U.S. Boat House)

4. Across the Marquise Neck (which used to be so low and dangerous that it had to be low tide to cross)

5. Point Mall

6. Salmonier

7. Salmonier Cove

8. Smith Cove

9. Pond Head (was the sight of the lighthouse for years, at Latine Point)

10. The Marquise (was also spelled Markies), was probably named after the location where a French Marquise had built a home much earlier.

The Devil's Bit was the nickname given to the Ferndale area of Northeast Arm. This point of the arm was almost impassable and a hanging footbridge overpassed it for several years. Herring Bay is now the site of a trailer court in Dunville, this and the head of Argentia Bay were especially rich in Herring.

Jorns Cove was often called Germs.

Blackey Mour Island in North East Arm is the legendary site of a burial of a Negro who had died on board a ship of a disease and "some say" the wood growing there will not burn. It is also legendary that a large ship sank near there and on some nights one hears six sets of oars, rowing up the arm.

A tickle is a passage between islands. Marshes have names like Horses Head, Naked Man, Tub Hill, and Butter Point, Bettys Hale and Big Fall's.

Names of Northeast Arm

1. North East Salmon River

2. Flatts

3. Gooseberry Island

4. Cross Land

5. Blackey Mour Island (or Black-a-moor)

6. Little Gut

7. Sandy Point - in Herring Bay

8. Cross Rocks - with narrow water between

9. Aunt Annie's Rock - a buoy once marked this dangerous spot which is submerged in high tide and a lady known as Aunt Annie almost drowned there when her punt sank.

10. Ball Park location

11. Seven Island (in the Arm) cross over the other side

12. Big Head

13. Dead Man's Cove - where a drowned man was recovered

14. Back Cove

15. Poore's Cove (Power's Cove) 16. The Cove

17. Dunville

18. Jordan's (Jorn's Cove)

19. Herring Bay

20. The Head

21. The U.S. Rest Camp named Northeast Arms

Dunville Names

The Whales Rock, Barney Nap, Goat Islands, Sandcrows Path, The Scrape, The Spa.

Historic Sites

There is a marker at the former enlisted men's barracks at Argentia commemorating the North Atlantic Treaty. There is a small marker near the former boathouse at Argentia marking the first flag raising. Castle Hill is a tourist attraction in Placentia at Jerseyside.

Another historic site is a marker at " Fort Lewis" on Jerseyside and "Fort Fredrick" at Placentia. The Town Hall of Dunville has an inscribed cornerstone because this building was built by Canadian and Provincial co-operation in 1957 to commemorate Confederation.

Many interesting sites are not marked. At the narrow neck of land on the far side of Placentia is "Block House", this was the site of a Naval block-house once. It is rumoured Placentia was once an island and all ships and boats were scuttled here and eventually a land area was built up. A Fox Harbour man who helped build the road said there were many ships there under the road.

The water wheel is partially visible from the road to Fox Harbour. Many military bunkers used during World War II are visible along the cliffs. Fox holes are also visible in Dunville.



Source: Women's Institute. (1970). Home Of Wooden Boats and Iron Men. Dunville: Women's Institute.

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