New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale- Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove | |
|---|---|
  Location inNewfoundland | |
| Coordinates:48°02′00″N53°10′00″W / 48.03333°N 53.16667°W /48.03333; -53.16667 | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Census division | Division 1 |
| Census subdivisions | Subdivision F |
| Area | |
• Total | 14.60 km2 (5.64 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 494[1] |
| • Density | 34.5/km2 (89/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight) |
| Area code | 709 |
New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove is alocal service district anddesignated place in theCanadian province ofNewfoundland and Labrador.
New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove is inNewfoundland withinSubdivision F ofDivision No. 1.[2] It consists of five unincorporated communities on theTrinity Bay side of the northern tip of theBay de Verde Peninsula.
![[icon]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aWiki_letter_w_cropped.svg) | This section is empty. You can help byadding to it.(March 2018) |
This small village was originally calledRussells Cove, and circa 1864 housed some 16 families.[citation needed]
Tradition has it that John Brown, who had migrated fromOld Perlican around 1820, was the first settler inBrownsdale. He had established asawmill there and was Brownsdale's first merchant. The original name of Brownsdale, Trinity Bay was Lance Cove South; the name was changed around 1910 to provide distinction from the other two Lance Coves on the island.
Brownsdale's first school was built in 1856 to accommodate twenty pupils. The village's first church wasWesleyan, constructed in 1870; the current church, theUnited Church of Brownsdale, was built in 1892. In 1958 a new high school was built and named for Newfoundland poetE. J. Pratt.
Sibley's Cove is usually considered to include Torquay (pronounced tarquay), a cluster of houses on the East End of the cove. It is believed that the cove was probably named after a migrating fisherman.
Prior to 1871, the community had been renamed New Melbourne.[3]
Lead Cove may take its name from the lead-grey rock that surrounds the shallow cove. Tradition also tells that Lead Cove may have received its name from one of its earliest settler, Abraham Button, who felt that he had been "led" to this site from Old Perlican in his search for a place to settle.
| Climate data for New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 15 (59) | 14 (57) | 17.2 (63.0) | 21 (70) | 26 (79) | 28.9 (84.0) | 30.6 (87.1) | 29 (84) | 26.1 (79.0) | 22.8 (73.0) | 21.1 (70.0) | 15.6 (60.1) | 30.6 (87.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.2 (31.6) | −0.6 (30.9) | 1.9 (35.4) | 5.3 (41.5) | 10.2 (50.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 20.4 (68.7) | 19.6 (67.3) | 16 (61) | 10.9 (51.6) | 6.9 (44.4) | 2.2 (36.0) | 9 (48) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.4 (25.9) | −3.9 (25.0) | −1.3 (29.7) | 2.2 (36.0) | 6.3 (43.3) | 11.1 (52.0) | 15.8 (60.4) | 15.8 (60.4) | 12.5 (54.5) | 7.8 (46.0) | 4.1 (39.4) | −0.7 (30.7) | 5.5 (41.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.7 (19.9) | −7.3 (18.9) | −4.5 (23.9) | −1.1 (30.0) | 2.4 (36.3) | 6.6 (43.9) | 11.1 (52.0) | 11.9 (53.4) | 8.9 (48.0) | 4.8 (40.6) | 1.3 (34.3) | −3.7 (25.3) | 2 (36) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −20 (−4) | −25 (−13) | −23 (−9) | −10.6 (12.9) | −6.7 (19.9) | −4 (25) | 0.6 (33.1) | 0.6 (33.1) | −1.1 (30.0) | −3 (27) | −9.5 (14.9) | −19.4 (−2.9) | −25 (−13) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 118.9 (4.68) | 106.6 (4.20) | 97.7 (3.85) | 81.4 (3.20) | 82.9 (3.26) | 87.1 (3.43) | 63.5 (2.50) | 103.9 (4.09) | 97.8 (3.85) | 121.2 (4.77) | 113.5 (4.47) | 107 (4.2) | 1,181.5 (46.52) |
| Source: 1961-1990Environment Canada[4] | |||||||||||||
All of these communities are underlain byPrecambrian bedrock of the Big Head Formation, chiefly gray to greenarkose andsiltstone.[5] Soils are stony loampodzols and are mapped as Turk's Cove series except at Lead Cove which lies on the less well drained Old Perlican series.[6]
As a designated place in the2016 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove recorded a population of 494 living in 221 of its 326 total private dwellings, a change of-1.8% from its 2011 population of 503. With a land area of 14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi), it had a population density of33.8/km2 (87.6/sq mi) in 2016.[7]
New Chelsea-New Melbourne-Brownsdale-Sibley's Cove-Lead Cove is a local service district (LSD)[8] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[9] The chair of the LSD committee is Terry Button.[8]
