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La Poile
Local service district / designated place in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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La Poile is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on La Poile Bay. The community is inaccessible by road and is served by a ferry via a port in Rose Blanche.[1][2][3][4]
The town mainly works in lobster fishing. As of the 2021 census, the population is 61 people. The community has a school offering grades K-9 and a small store. There is an Anglican church which offers services once a month. Health care is limited to a first responder and a visiting doctor who comes once a month, weather permitting.
The town was the subject of an episode of Viceland's Abandoned.[5] There is only one student in the local school.[citation needed] The last town-wide vote in 2017 did not have enough support for the residents to accept provincial money to leave the settlement under the resettlement program.[6]
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Geography
La Poile is in Newfoundland within Subdivision I of Division No. 3.[7]
Demographics
As a designated place in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Poile recorded a population of 61 living in 33 of its 47 total private dwellings, a change of -29.9% from its 2016 population of 87.[8] With a land area of 1.46 km2 (0.56 sq mi), it had a population density of 59.6/km2 (154.3/sq mi) in 2016.[9]
Government
La Poile is a local service district (LSD)[10] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[11] The chair of the LSD committee is Monford Organ.[10]
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