Official Name: | Happy Adventure |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 118 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 48.6361°N -53.7597°W |
Happy Adventure is an outport village on the Eastport Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador., the population was 118.
Happy Adventure consists of three well-defined inlets known locally as of Upper Cove, Little Sandy Cove, and Lower Cove (which also contains a smaller attached cove known as Powell's Cove).
The origin of the village name is a matter of some controversy. According to local lore, the name, which was first referenced in 1817, could have had any one of three origins. Some speculate it is a reflection of the joyful experience of the first settlers in finding such a welcoming environs. Alternatively, it has been postulated that the community was named to commemorate a ship belonging to 17th-century pirate Peter Easton. Still others suggest the community was named by George Holbrook, a British Admiralty hydrographer. Holbrook surveyed Newman Sound in 1817 and sheltered in one of Happy Adventure's coves during a storm.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Happy Adventure had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 9.62km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]