Tors Cove is alocal service district anddesignated place in theCanadian province ofNewfoundland and Labrador. It is on the east coast of theAvalon Peninsula of the island ofNewfoundland, approximately 40 kilometres south of theSt. John's, the provincial capital, alongRoute 10 (Irish Loop Drive/Southern Shore Highway). It was formerly namedToads Cove.[1]
Tors Cove is inNewfoundland withinSubdivision U ofDivision No. 1.[2]
As a designated place in the2016 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Tors Cove recorded a population of 300 living in 136 of its 257 total private dwellings, a change of-33.2% from its 2011 population of 449. With a land area of 9.17 km2 (3.54 sq mi), it had a population density of32.7/km2 (84.7/sq mi) in 2016.[3]
Throughout its history, its economy was sustained through the cod fishery and was the site of a codfish processing plant until the moratorium in 1991. It is also the site of a hydroelectric dam (located on Tors Cove pond) and power plant.
Tors Cove is on theEast Coast Trail.[4]
Tors Cove is a local service district (LSD)[5] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[6] The chair of the LSD committee is Hannah Power.[5]
