Official Name: | St. Bride's |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Eugene Manning[1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 318 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 46.9219°N -54.1722°W |
St. Bride's (Irish: Cill Bhríde) is a town on the Cape Shore of Newfoundland, Canada. Located 166 km Southwest of the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, St. Bride's is a fishing community with a population of approximately 318 persons as of 2021. The largest codfish ever caught, weighing in at 125 lbs, was landed here in 1905.
St. Bride's is the largest community on the Cape Shore, and serves as an administrative centre. It is home to Fatima Academy and several businesses and government services.
The community is named for the Irish St. Brigid, which reflects the community's traditional history of ties to the southeast of Ireland, the Irish language in Newfoundland, and to the Catholic Church in Canada.
It was the location of St. Bride's Radar Station.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. Bride's had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.38km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]