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4 unusual facts about Bonavista Bay


Alfred B. Morine

He represented Bonavista Bay in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1886 to 1906 as a Conservative and from 1913 to 1916 as a member of the Fishermen's Protective Union.

HMS Coureur

She was under the command of Lieutenant Christopher Major on 21 June 1780 when two American privateers, the Fortune and the Griffin, captured her outside Bonavista Bay after an action that cost her three men killed and four wounded.

MV Kipawo

While en route to St. John's one day in the late 1970s, she sought shelter in Bonavista Bay from a storm but ran aground and remained there deteriorating for several years.

Terra Nova National Park

Terra Nova National Park is located on the east coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, along several inlets of Bonavista Bay.


Martin Mate

He held incumbencies at Pushthrough, St. Barbe, Cookshire, Catalina, Bonavista Bay and Pouch Cove before his ordination to the episcopate


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Wadham Islands

In 1858, the Offer Wadham lighthouse was erected on the Offer Wadham islands, the first lighthouse on the northern part of Bonavista Bay.