Official Name: | Terra Nova |
Native Name: | New Land |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 99 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 48.5°N -67°W |
Website: | https://townofterranova.ca/ |
Terra Nova is a town located southwest of Glovertown on the island of Newfoundland. It was served by the Canadian National Railway in the 1950s. The population in 2006 was 68, this from a historic low of just 28 in 1996. By 2016, the population had risen to 73, down slightly from the total of 83 recorded in 2011. There is a sizable leisure and summer population here seasonally as well as the stable permanent population.
Terra Nova is accessible from Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) via Route 301 (Terra Nova Road).
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Terra Nova had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.44km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]