1955 Canada Post list of unidentified communities

These 90 communities were listed on post office cards as Newfoundland and Labrador communities in 1955. The cards (about 1600 in all) each contained a community name. More than 300 false names were marked with an "X" (a "nixie") leaving nearly 1300 real placenames. Potential postal employees were tested using the cards. The tester would read out the names and the applicant would indicate if it was a good name or not.

None of these names appear in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador as a separate entry; those that appear in Gazetteer of Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador (GNL) have their map coordinates in column 2. Bay names are included where it appears obvious from the latitude and longitude. Some may be "trick" names to further test the applicants' knowledge. A number appearing in brackets (4) indicates there are 4 places with the same name in Gazetteer of Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador.

Communities in this list that also appear in an 1892 Post Office list of Island communities are marked there, showing they were extant from 1892 until 1955, at least. Many, not abandoned, were swallowed up by municipal reorganizations (eg. Aaron Arm is part of Burgeo); others, abandoned, were part of communities listed as abandoned in the Gazetteer (eg. Gallows Harbour, Placentia Bay was an alternate name for the abandoned community of St. Josephs or Great St. Josephs).


Aaron Arm

Agasiarvik  

Alder Harbour  

Athlone  

Bachelors Cove

Baileys Cove

Baileys Point

Bakers Tickle

Bald Nap (~ ~ Point)

Ball Bay

Bamburghs Cove

Barbarel

Beckford (~ Cove)

Bede Cove

Ben Batts Cove

Bishops Harbour

Black Brook (7)

Black River (4)

Blue Pinion (~ ~ Harbour)

Boar Island

Borderaux

Brazils

Brimball Head 

Bulleys Cove

Burntwoods (6)

Cabot Island (2)

Castle Cove (2)

Centre Cove

Chambers Island

Clay Cove (7)

Coal All (~ ~ Island)

Collins Cove

Cormorandier

Couts Pond (Coote ~) 

Damnable Harbour (~ Bay) 

Dock

Dock Cove (2)

Dorans

Doting Cove (4)

Duffs

Duricile

Eboulements

Farm

Fools Island ( ~ ~ Harbour) 

Gallows Harbour 

God Bay

Godfathers Cove

Grand River

Gravenbank

Hannock

Hearts Disease

Holloways Passage

House Cove

Innismara  

Kikmertaujaluk

La Plante (~ ~ Cove)

La Plante (~ ~ Harbour)

Lake Beach (~ ~ Harbour)

Le Croiz  

Lock

Lories

Macks Island
  
Milk Boy Cove

Mistaken Cove

Mock Beggar

Mouse Island (12)

Mussels Pond (4)

Nakkia

Napartoksoa (Napartok Island)

Natan

Our Harbour

Pig Island

Rix Cove

Rotto

Shandy Hall

Shell Island

Silver Hare Island

South West Island (5)

St. Mein Bay

Step-a-Side

Tessinjak

Tessinjaluk

Tininek

Tory Town

Tuckers Island

Valentine Cove

Vitters Cove

Whale Cove

Whales Cove

Winters Cove

Wolf Island
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1M/3 47°43N 53°11W

2C/4 48°02N 53°40W

12H/5 49°29N 57°25W



2C/4 49°29N 57°25W







1M/7 47°23N 54°31W





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11P/12 47°36N 57°35W





1M/12 47°42N 55°54W

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1M/9 47°37N 54°47W



2E/7 49°24N 54°47W

1M/3 47°02N 55°10W



1K/13 46°57N 53°31W

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1N/6 47°27N 53°07W

1M/3 47°07N 55°05W





2E/10 49°34N 54°45W

1M/7 47°22N 54°47W

11O/10 47°36N 58°53W

12H/15 49°52N 56°46 W









1M/7 47°22N 54°49W

2C/4 48°01N 53°42W





1M/16 47°45N 54°15W

11O/9 47°39N 58°25W







1L/13 46°54N 55°56W

2E/12 49°3855°47W

2E/12 49°3455°41W

12P/7 51°19N 56°43W









13N/1 55°11N 60°26W



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1N/14 47°54N 53°22W

1M/3 47°01N 55°10W

1N/2 47°13N 51°49W

13I/6 54°26N 57°36W
Barrasway Bay







Belle Bay

Trinity Bay

West Coast



Trinity Bay







Placentia Bay





Bonavista Bay





Fortune Bay

South Coast







Notre Dame Bay









Placentia Bay



Notre Dame Bay

Placentia Bay



St. Marys Bay

Bonavista Bay









Siding

Placentia Bay





Notre Dame Bay

Placentia Bay

South Coast

White Bay









Placentia Bay

Trinity Bay





Placentia Bay

South Coast







Burin Peninsula

Green Bay

Green Bay

Northern Peninsula









Labrador Coast



South Coast



Green Bay





























Trinity Bay

Placentia Bay

Southern Shore

Groswater Bay