Alexander Bay Station, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Alexander Bay Station is a Canadian settlement in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The community contained a store as well as a telegraph and express office in 1911. It is in Bonavista District and is situated on the Clarenville Branch of the Newfoundland Railway.
It is located 181 miles from St. John's, 50 miles from Clarenville, west of Glovertown. The post office began on April 1, 1949 and was closed by September 13, 1966.
The bay was previously named Bloody Bay or Bloody Reach, after a conflict between European settlers and the Beothuk, but was later renamed after local merchant William Alexander.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Hamilton, William Baillie (1996). Place Names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press, p. 154. ISBN 0802075703.
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