Summary for Newfoundland Island
Although we found mention of Newfoundland Island during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Over time, we expect to discover additional information that will be added to our Gazetteer..
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Newfoundland Island and then turned east". While Newfoundland Island could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Newfoundland Island as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Newfoundland Island could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Newfoundland and Labrador community named Newfoundland Island. |
| <2> | Longitude & latitude values may not be the geographic center of Newfoundland Island, rather it may be a prominent intersection or the center of population, etc. It will vary depending on the source. |