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Haystack was a former fishing settlement located on the northern portion of Long Island, Placentia Bay of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was resettled during the resettlement program of the 1950s and 60s. The community takes its name from a natural protuberance approximately 50 feet in height located (47.633829, -54.062453) on the extreme end of the peninsula sourrounding the natural harbour; called the haystack. ==History== Prior to any settlement within Haystack, it's close proximity to good fishing grounds it served as a seasonal base for fisherman. As the number of migratory fisherman grew it developed into a more permanent settlement which the first Newfoundland government census of 1836 showed a population along with Paddy Poor's Cove (renamed Spencers Cove) of 33 individuals. In the 1845 census Haystack was no longer combined with Spencers Cove which recorded 11 people from two (2) families. In the 1857 Newfoundland census five (5) families with thirty-seven people in all were recorded. The families were of English origin. Grants were issued as early as 1847 for Robert Coffin, Thomas Rendell and Thomas Bugden. The population had reached forty-nine in 1869 and by that time it had both a Church of England church and school. The population had peaked in 1921 with 148 inhabitants. ''Lovell's Newfoundland Directory'' (1871) notes some of the first inhabitants of haystack as Robert Coffin, planter, and James Allen, Thomas Drake, Samuel and Thomas Gilbert, Edward Hanna, John King, Joseph Upshall and Isaac Wakeley as fisherman. The population of Haystack declined in population due to many factors, among which was the isolation and the spread of tuberculosis which took its toll on many of the young of Haystack. By 1945 the population had shrunk to 97 and by 1953 there were just ten (10) families remaining, with 23 children attending school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Haystack, Newfoundland and Labrador」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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