Official Name: | Comfort Cove-Newstead |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Peter Watkins[1] |
Area Total Km2: | 29.83 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 345[2] |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 49.3993°N -54.8642°W |
Elevation M: | 11 |
Comfort Cove-Newstead is a small fishing community located outside Campbellton, on the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, (on the Bay of Exploits).
It has a recently renovated town hall, a fire department, a corner store with post office, two churches, and other services including a fish processing plant and a vegetable farm.
There are many services such as a playground, town hall, community center, fish plant, fire hall, local store, vegetable farm and more. The children in this town, along with those from Campbellton, Birchy Bay, Baytona, Loon Bay and Michaels Harbour attend a k-9 school in the Campbellton and high school in Lewisporte.
There are about 248 private dwellings, in Comfort Cove-Newstead, covering a land area of about 29.83 square km. There is a Salvation Army place of worship, a United Church, and Cull's Point Cemetery there.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Comfort Cove-Newstead had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 29.97km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]