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unusual facts about Cuper's Cove


Cuper's Cove

Given the failure of Walter Raleigh to establish a colony at Roanoke Island in 1584 and the successful settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and on learning that Samuel de Champlain had sailed into the St. Lawrence to initiate the settlement of New France, pressure was mounting to lay claim to the resource rich New World.


Burgoyne's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador

On March 18, 1953, the American Convair B-36 bomber known as The Peacemaker crashed due to inclement-weather, killing all on board, including Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth.

Charlie David

Charles David Lubiniecki (born August 9, 1980), better known as Charlie David, is a Canadian actor, writer, director and producer, best known for the male lead in the LGBT horror series Dante's Cove.

Coachman's Cove

The first names associated with the settlement were Downey, Bailey, Norman, Dobbin, Dow, Demfy, and Drover.

Eric Allaman

Eric has scored over 30 movies and over 500 episodes of television and is best known for his scores to “Legend”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “Latter Days”, “Witless Protection”, “Mike Hammer Private Eye”, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Dante's Cove”.

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove

Kirra is sent to stay with Gus in his run-down amusement park in Cape Town after her father was hospitalized for six weeks.

However, Willy had under-developed echolocation skills and is unable to survive without his pod, thus making it unsuitable for rehabilitation.

Gabriel Romero

Gabriel Romero (b. Mexico City) is an actor best known for his ground-breaking role as Fernandito, the first openly gay character on Spanish-language television, on the Telemundo sitcom Los Beltrán and for his role as Marco on the here! original series Dante's Cove.

Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke

Herbert's first film was Malachi's Cove (a.k.a. The Seaweed Children, 1974), starring Donald Pleasence and Arthur English amongst others, but it is probably his second film, Emily (1976), a soft-core erotic film starring Koo Stark, which he is best remembered for.

Jervis Inlet

At the mouth of Jervis Inlet a passenger and vehicle ferry operated by BC Ferries connects Earl's Cove (on the upper end of the Sechelt Peninsula and lower Sunshine Coast) with Saltery Bay (on the bottom end of the Malaspina Peninsula and upper Sunshine Coast).

Josh Berresford

Primarily known early in his career for his work on stage and in independent films, Berresford first gained national recognition for his role of Cory on the here! original series Dante's Cove.

Lord's Cove

Lord's Cove is an ideal birdwatching area with established colonies of Leach's storm-petrel and Manx Shearwater nearby at Middle Lawn Island.

Malachi's Cove

Malachi's Cove is a 1974 British-Canadian drama film directed by Henry Herbert and starring Donald Pleasence, Veronica Quilligan and Peter Vaughn.

Mike Costanza

Michael’s additional credits include Creator/Producer of the television series Dante's Cove.

Pat and Joe Byrne

Baxter Wareham, retired from a career of teaching high school, has begun following his lifelong dream to be the captain of a pilot boat and is currently working at sea out of Arnold's Cove.

Quixote's Cove

It promotes English writing by Nepali authors and has done book tours with Nepali writers including Manjushree Thapa, Sushma Joshi, Samrat Upadhyay, and Indian author Namita Gokhale.

Thomas Willoughby

Willoughby a noted black sheep of the family, was sent, along with his guardian Henry Crout, to Cuper's Cove to mend his ways and help in establishing his fathers land ownership on the Bay de Verde Peninsula.


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