| Official Name: | Hawke's Bay |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | early 20th century |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 297 |
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
| Coordinates: | 50.6139°N -57.1667°W |
Hawke's Bay is a town at the mouth of Torrent River southeast of Point Riche in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The town was named after Edward Hawke by James Cook in 1766. This was to commemorate Hawke's victory in the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. Although Hawke's Bay was used as an enclave during the early struggle for North America by both the English and French navies, it was not until the early 20th century that Michael Walsh became the first permanent settler. In 1903, a whaling station was established on the north side of the bay, but it closed the following year. Sydney Cotton ran the first airmail service in Newfoundland to Hawke's Bay. In 1933, pulpwood harvesting was established in the area by the International Pulp and Paper Company.
The first Postmistress was Miss Dorothea Desse Hoddinott who died in August 2003.
Hawke's Bay has a humid continental climate (Koppen: Dfb). Summers are mild and rainy while winters are chilly and extremely snowy, with average annual snowfall totaling 360.5 cm (142 inches) . Winter typically begins during November and can last well into April, and can see nightly lows dip well below zero.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Hawke's Bay had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 46.41km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]