Broad Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Broad Cove is located on King's Island, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. Its geographical position is 47 - 45 - 30 N ; 53 - 59 - 17 W. Broad cove was one of five communities located on Kings Island. The other communities were:Tacks Beach, Best Harbour, Bakers Cove, Coopers Cove and Yaulis Cove. All communities had the same postal address, which was "Tacks Beach, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland.

Living at Broad Cove during 1950s - 60s were:

      Winnie Hapgood* and Earl Lockyer                Maude Barrett and Enoch Cumby 
          Cyril Lockyer                                      Alexander Cumby                                  
          Berkley Lockyer                                    Harvey Cumby
          Calvin Lockyer                                     Wallace Cumby
          Judy Lockyer                                       Maxwell Cumby
 Caroline Warren and Edgar Hapgood                           Samuel Cumby                                                                       
          Charles Hapgood*                                   Mina Cumby
          Winnie Hapgood*                             Dora Hollett and George Hapgood
          Berkley Hapgood                                  Ida Barrett (Hapgood)
          Raymond Hapgood                             Bridget Green and Edward Green
          Clyde Hapgood                                    Emma Green
 Edith Green and Charles Hapgood*
          Madonna Hapgood
 Charlotte Penny and Berkley Hapgood               
          Jeanette Hapgood
          Grayson Hapgood                                                      
          Kirt Hapgood                                       
          Ivan Hapgood
          Annette Hapgood                                    
          Sherry Hapgood                                    
          Darrell Hapgood                                    
  Stella Hapgood and Stewart Trowbridge                                                                                          
          Mary Trowbridge 
          Alexander Trowbridge 
          Lily Trowbridge                             
          George Trowbridge                           
          Caroline Trowbridge                                                            
          Benjamin Trowbridge
          William Trowbridge
          Cecil Trowbridge           
          Philip Trowbridge
          Ida Trowbridge
          Gertie Trowbridge
          Gary Trowbridge
  Marcella Williams and Albert Trowbridge           
          Sarah Trowbridge
          John Trowbridge
          Robert Trowbridge
          Samuel Trowbridge

  Freeman Trowbridge                                                                                                                            
          Beatrice Trowbridge                                                              
  Laura Brown and Wilson Trowbridge
         Roy Trowbridge
         Hannah Trowbridge
         Audrey Trowbridge
         Frank Trowbridge
         Ralph Trowbridge
         Eileen Trowbridge
         Ida Trowbridge
         Hubert Trowbridge
         Dena Trowbridge
  ??????????? and Albert Warren
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         Winnie Warren
 ???????????? and William Warren
 Alfreda ????? and Joseph Warren
         Benjamin Joseph Warren
         Walter Warren
         Maxwell Warren
         Caroline Warren*
         Violet Warren
         Wilson Warren
 Cecila Brown and Benjamin Joseph Warren
         Charles Warren
         Samuel Warren
         Albert Warren
         Florence Warren
         Ethel Warren
         Jessie Warren
 Myrtle Lockyer and Wilsom Warren
         Georgina Warren
         Loretta Warren
         
                                 

Family names of Broad Cove in 1950-60 were; Lockyer, Green, Brown, Hollett, Dowden, Hapgood, Trowbridge, Cumby, and Warren.

The main activity of the community was fishing = fishing for cod and lobster. It had a herring factory owned by H.C. Brown and packed herring for the West Indies. It also had a large fish store with outside fish flakes for the natural curing of salted cod fish. At the herring factory wharf, salt, flour and coal were unloaded for the local market, and salt fish and or herring was picked up for export.

Popular children's summer activities included "playing cowboys", piddly, rolling hoops, walking on stilts, swimming in the BIG POND, or in the salt water. Winter activities included ice hockey, sliding and "hopping bally clampers".