Milltown–Head of Bay d'Espoir is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 669 in the Canada 2021 Census.
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Coordinates: 47°55′33″N 55°44′39″W | |
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• Total | 669 |
Time zone | UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight) |
Area code | 709 |
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In January 2017, Bay d'Espoir Academy, along with the local RCMP detachment and Milltown Town Hall/Fire Department, was set ablaze in an act of arson.[1] The original school was located in Milltown. A new school was built on a parcel of land in St. Alban's with construction completed in October 2021.[2][3][4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir had a population of 669 living in 320 of its 358 total private dwellings, a change of -10.7% from its 2016 population of 749. With a land area of 24.95 km2 (9.63 sq mi), it had a population density of 26.8/km2 (69.4/sq mi) in 2021.[5]
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