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Our Community of Cottrell`s Cove

or Legally, The Local Service District of Cottrell`s Cove





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Our history on the shores of New Bay goes back to the late 1700`s when the  Beothuk Indians  had many wigwams set up along Manuels Brook and at Wigwam Cove. European settlers came to catch salmon from the many brooks and rivers of New Bay. My great grandmother, Tamar Rowsell had a great uncle, Thomas who was killed and beheaded in 1789 by the Indians as he was taking salmon from his weir at the mouth of Southwest Brook. Southwest Brook is now called Mill River that flows into New Bay at Point Leamington. The Rowsells were part of Matthew Wards salmon catching crew and were the first to have a tilt in Cottrell`s Cove. There are reports of many fights with the Indians after the death of Uncle Thomas right here and also at Wigwam Cove, near Moores` Cove. My grandfather, many years ago told me of many tricks they used to fool the Indians as they tried to survive year around living here.        Soon came the Manuels, shipbuilders from Exploits, to cut timber and to build  many schooners on the shoals of Manuels Brook right here in Cottrell`s Cove. The last four mast schooner ever built in Nfld, the "NINA", was built right here by Jacob Manuel.

Waterfront closeup
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Twilight on the Bay
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May 10, 2007,Drift Ice in the Bay
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Lots of Big Icebergs were viewed here in Spring 2007

Early winter in Cottrell`s Cove, Dec. 2007
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Looking out from Lower Alfred`s lookout

Frozen solid almost all the way to Leading Tickles
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Cottrell`s Cove on Jan 28, 2008

Looking out at Moores Cove Apr. 27, 2009
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ICEBERG ON JUNE 20, 09 View from our main road
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LARGEST ICEBERG THIS YEAR,

Summer Food Fishery Aug. 2009
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Oceanfisher 18 or Seadoo, you pick the boat!

House for sale in Moores Cove
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Modern home with Ocean View.

View of the sunset from the Property for Sale
Ivans Moores House for sale
Overlooking Moores Cove and New Bay. Call Ivan at 709 485 2872

Looking toward the Cove
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Feb. 10, 2010

Great storm of 2008
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Cottrells Cove at the Red Star--click to enlarge
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Map of the Island of Newfoundland

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Historic Grace United Church --- 102 Years old

Cottrell`s Cove on a summers day with high tide
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No traffic, still waiting for rush hour!

The Cove from the top of Church Hill
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Looking to the South side, Aug. 2007

Ocean view on Apr. 28, 08
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Same as picture on the left but after the Winter

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Cottrell`s Cove Sunset

Crossing New Bay on a late summer evening
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Sept. Sunset 2008

Moores Cove, looking ashore
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Hughes Columbia 8.7m docked at Moores Cove
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Yates Mobile repaired Lifelines at Dockside

Hungry? Visit Mr. Spud Diner on Moores Cove Road
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Open every day at 12 noon until end of September

An ocean view to set up your Tent or Camper
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Unserviced but the space is free to use for a few days

Fall food fishery, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009
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Beached in a secluded cove for lunch and rest




Note to visitors to this page who might be thinking of buying summer or full time property in our area.



     We have gained several new residents in the past couple of years that have bought or built homes in this area. We have some new houses for sale and some more that belong to residents who have gone to Alberta to live. We have some land overlooking the ocean and some more that is more sheltered and back away from the cold winter winds. The air is fresh all the time and not polluted like many parts of Canada. You will seldom find use for and air conditioner. The night are usually cool for sleeping even on the warmest days. We are a very quiet community with about 80 full time households and also 40 cabins or cottages that are occupied part time. We have a new water treatment plant that supplies potable drinking water without a boil order and the community water supply and garbage disposal is managed by the Local Service District Committee of Cottrell`s Cove. We only collect fees for services and not poll or property taxes.
  The Local Service District of Cottrell`s Cove was set up by the Government of NFLD and takes its direction from the Department of Municipal Affairs like many other local service districts throughout the province.



If you need more information on buying property in the Cottrell`s Cove area, email me by using the link below. 




                                
 
          NOTES TO LOCAL RESIDENTS 2009
Patching continues with cold patch on the Moores Cove road and the road to Fortune Harbour by the highways repair crew . We have been told that in the next 2 years we will see a lot of money put into road infastructure in our local area. We need to fix the leaks in our water system before we repave the road so we do not have to pave the road twice. I figure the water system could be included in the contract with the paving to avoid ripping up the new pavement to fix leaks.
 
 
LOTS OF  WILD ANIMALS VISITING OUR TOWN THIS SUMMER 2008
 
This summer the provincial wildlife department had been busy trapping and removing Beavers from our town water supply and now they have two Bear traps inside our town limits trying to trap bears that have been resident in our dump all summer and lately caused havoc with the garbage cans at MR Spud. Even minks have walked into the water treatment plant at servicing time and had to be chased out before locking the door . Cottrell`s Cove is becoming a regular zoo.
 
 
 
  Walking Trail to Flurrey Bight and other tourist projects in the Cottrell`s Cove area.

A new Recreation Committee was just put in place to go after funding for a new walking trail to Flurrey Bight and to continue on from there to the Fairy Hill Lookout Site at Fortune Hr. This trail will follow the  old historic route used by early settlers to the New Bay area.

Another project is the building of a lookout and picnic site on Yellow Fox Island with toilets and a boat haulout ramp at that Moores Cove location. Many visitors came in past years to view icebergs for free  and  can look forward to a better viewing spot and of course we will not charge to visiting people to use our lookout as is being done in some nearby communities.
 
Winter Tickle Picnic Park
We have applied for a picnic park site at Winter Tickle Lake, former property of the New Bay Boys and Girls Club. Cottrell`s Cove has been awarded the area now that  a problem we were having with the provincial Tourism Department has been cleared up. We were encouraged by Crown Lands to apply for the site to keep it in public hands only to be stopped for some time by the government department that should be helping us. We were advised in early 2009 that our application had been approved. We will try to move the project fwd in the coming year with help from the Exploits Economic Development Association. Our sourrounding area lacks a place to relax, swim and have a lunch especially in the summer months. The whole province of Nfld lacks public picnic areas along the highways. Other provinces and states in the USA have many places that a tourist can stop and relax on their travels. We would like to restore this site to the way it was with the previous Boys and Girls Club infastructure plus put in a few picnic sites with some picnic tables. Site on a smaller scale but similar to to the ones  you would find near service centres along highway 401 in Ontario.
We thank Crown Lands  for approving our application and as soon as the official paperwork arrives we hope to get the project underway.
 
          UPDATE JUNE 1O, 09
 
We are still waiting for the paperwook for our park at Wintertickle Lake to arrive. The provincial government has been busy filling holes in the main road, we have not heard anything about a new paving program for our area this year. We have to contend with delays and rough road through Point au Bay because of blasting and digging to install new water lines in Point au Bay. Icebergs have been scarce in our area. We hope that we will see more in the next month or so. The provincial goverment has removed all of the  road signs and is going to the standard method of signage. Just ask anyone you see for directions or other information you would like know. I figure any sign is better than no signs and if you have a complaint, take it to the provincial tourism department for removing all the  information signs this year.
   
   New Garbage Collection for 2010
     We are changing over to the new waste collection system that has been put fwd by the Government of Nfld. Our new waste disposal site will be near Norris Arm North about 50 miles away. We are still in discussions with CNWMC on how we fit into their plan. We have been told that our waste disposal cost will go to about $170.00
a year, up from the fee this year of $90 with our own local dump and management. Still some confusion over the rate for cabin owners in our area. We are electing for the curbside pickup and we may drop collections from cabins that are owned by residents that own property in another town in our pickup area. We can see problems trying to get the new system in place. I believe it will be a good system since our local dump will be closed forever. Just got to make sure there is no dumping in the bushes along the road or overboard into the ocean like in the days before the local dump was in place.  I am still trying to figure out the new system info so I can it pass along to our residents.
 

Wilson Yates (chairperson)

Local Service District Committee

Box 110

Cottrell`Cove, NL. A0H 1L0



Wilson

ph 709 485 2944

fax 709 485 2944

cell 416 209 7605 or 709 293 1664
 

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