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Cow Head
Town
Cow HeadLocation of Cow Head in Newfoundland
Coordinates: 49°55′00″N 57°48′00″W / 49.9167°N 57.8°W / 49.9167; -57.8
Country	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador
Area
• Land	17.84 km (6.89 sq mi)
Population
• Total	398
Time zone	UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Area code	709
Highways	Route 430
Cow Head Light
Cow Head Lighthouse in 2013
Coordinates	49°55′12.28″N 57°49′31.89″W / 49.9200778°N 57.8255250°W / 49.9200778; -57.8255250
Constructed	1905
Foundation	concrete base
Construction	cast iron tower
Automated	1952
Height	5.5 metres (18 ft)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern, red trim
Operator	Town of Cow Head
Heritage	municipal heritage site
Deactivated	1988
Focal height	43 metres (141 ft)
Range	15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic	F W

Cow Head is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 478 in the Canada 2016 Census.

The Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum (c. 1941) in Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

Cow Head is home to one of the longest sandy beaches in Newfoundland as well as a large area of sand dunes. It also has panoramic views of the Long Range Mountains of Gros Morne. An interesting geologic feature found at Cow Head is a section of the former continental margin of Laurentia which dipped into the Iapetus ocean.

There is a walking trail leading to a lighthouse constructed in 1909 on the summer side or "head" of Cow Head.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cow Head had a population of 398 living in 184 of its 225 total private dwellings, a change of -7% from its 2016 population of 428. With a land area of 17.27 km (6.67 sq mi), it had a population density of 23.0/km (59.7/sq mi) in 2021.

Arts and culture

Cow Head is the home to the Gros Morne Theatre Festival.

A new theatre named in honour of nurse, Myra Bennett, is currently under construction and aiming for completion in 2021.

Geology

The Cow Head Group is made up of a series of continental slope strata that contain numerous boulders made of carbonate. These have yielded numerous trilobite fossils and have led to the identification of new species, including Catillicephala cifelli, named after paleontologist Rich Cifelli.

Gallery

• Aerial photo of the Cow Head Peninsula
• Sandy beach in Cow Head, 2020

See also

• List of lighthouses in Canada
• List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

References

1. ^ "Corrections and updates: Population and dwelling count amendments, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. February 14, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
2. ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Newfoundland and Labrador". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
3. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Southwestern Newfoundland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
4. Cow Head Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 15 February 2017
5. List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
6. "Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
7. "Origins" Ron Redfern page 79 ISBN 0 304 35403 1
8. "ArtsNL - Theatre Newfoundland Labrador". www.nlac.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
9. "A new Cambrian catillicephalid trilobite from the Shallow Bay Formation of western Newfoundland, Canada - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica". www.app.pan.pl. Retrieved 2022-04-01.

External links

• Cow Head – Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 1, p. 551-553.
• Aids to Navigation Canadian Coast Guard

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Towns	Anchor Point Bellburns Bird Cove Conche Cook's Harbour Cow Head Daniel's Harbour Englee Flower's Cove Glenburnie–Birchy Head–Shoal Brook Goose Cove East Hawke's Bay Main Brook Norris Point Parson's Pond Port au Choix Port Saunders Raleigh River of Ponds Rocky Harbour Roddickton–Bide Arm St. Anthony St. Lunaire–Griquet St. Pauls Sally's Cove Trout River Woody Point
Unorganized subdivisions	Subdivision A Subdivision C Subdivision D Subdivision F Subdivision G Subdivision H
Designated places	Bartletts Harbour Bear Cove, Northern Peninsula Black Duck Cove, Northern Peninsula Brig Bay Castor River North Castor River South Croque Eddies Cove West Forresters Point Great Brehat Green Island Brook L'Anse aux Meadows to Quirpon Nameless Cove Pidgeon Cove-St. Barbe Plum Point Portland Creek Reefs Harbour-Shoal Cove West-New Ferolle Ship Cove, Northern Peninsula St. Anthony Bight St. Juliens
See also: Census divisions of Newfoundland and Labrador

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