Official Name: | Peterview, Newfoundland & Labrador |
Other Name: | Peters Arm |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | 1962 |
Area Total Km2: | 6.72 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 723 |
Population Density Km2: | 123.2 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 49.1486°N -55.3506°W |
Elevation M: | 12 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code span |
Website: | http://www.peterview.ca/ |
Peterview is a town located in the Exploits Valley area of central Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where Peters River empties into the Bay of Exploits, just south of Botwood, off Route 350.
Originally named Peters Arm, the community was incorporated as the Town of Peterview in 1962. The mayor is Jim Samson and the deputy mayor is Pleman Brown. According to the 2001 Statistics Canada census, Peterview has a population of 807 with 266[1] private dwellings.
Peterview has connections to Demasduit, also known as Mary March, a figure in Newfoundland history and one of the last Beothuks, as John Peyton, one of her captors, built the first house in the area.[2]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Peterview had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 6.34km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]