Book Description
Rock Harbour, one of the oldest communities on the westside of Placentia Bay, featured very prominently in the settlement of the Mortier Bay Region. For 150 years families from this tiny community migrated to Butler's Cove (Creston), Spanish Room, Gold's Cove (Mooring Cove), Mortier Bay (Marystown) and Jean de Baie. Like many of Newfoundland's outports, it was settled because of its rich fishing grounds and declined when this advantage was lost in the twentieth century as the offshore fishery gained ascendancy over the inshore. Nonetheless, it survived the planned resettlement of the 1960s when hundreds of communities disappeared from the map. Today it is primarily a dormitory with residents employed in industries located in Marystown.
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