Official Name: | Red Harbour |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1800s |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | 1969 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 177 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Website: | Town of Red Harbour Official Website |
Red Harbour is a Canadian municipality of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located 20 kilometres northeast of Marystown.
Red Harbour was inhabited from the early 19th century until the early 1960s when the half dozen families living there abandoned the community under the resettlement program.
The present town was created when residents from Port Elizabeth (in the Flat Islands) convinced the provincial government to relocate them to Red Harbour during the resettlement program in the late 1960s. Red Harbour is primarily a fishing community. Species fished are lobster, snowcrab, lumproe, and cod. The town has modern harbour facilities constructed in 1997.
The town council consists of:
Janelle Slaney is the current Town Clerk. Kevin Paddle served as Town Clerk/Manager from 2003 to 2019.
The position was previously held by Trudy Bennett (1997–2003) and prior to Ms. Bennett by Walter Kenway who served as Town Clerk for many years. Mr. Kenway was also Mayor of Red Harbour for several years and was one of the community leaders responsible for creating the community in 1969.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Red Harbour had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 11.19km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]