Official Name: | Pinware |
Native Name: | Pied Noir |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Established Title: | Incorporated |
Established Date: | 1978 |
Government Type: | Municipal Council |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Kayla Beals |
Leader Title1: | Town Clerk |
Leader Name1: | Mary Ellen Butt |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 64 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 51.6219°N -56.7139°W |
Website: | http://pinware-labrador.ca |
Pinware is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town has a population of 64, according to the Canada 2021 Census.
The town is located along Route 510 in Labrador, between L'Anse-au-Diable and Red Bay.
The community has been formerly known as Riviere des François, Pirouette River, and Black Bay. It is believed the name is a corruption of Pied Noir (black foot) from the shape of a rock found at the mouth of Black Rock Brook.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pinware had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4.08km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
Its 2016 census count of 88 was a decrease from its 2011 population of 107.[2]
Pinware was once a fishing community.[3]