Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir

Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 669 in the Canada 2021 Census.

Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir
Town
Coordinates: 47°55′33″N 55°44′39″W
Country	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador
Population  (2021)
• Total	669
Time zone	UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Area code	709
Highways	Route 361

In January 2017, Bay d'Espoir Academy, along with the local RCMP detachment and Milltown Town Hall/Fire Department, was set ablaze in an act of arson.^[1] The original school was located in Milltown. A new school was built on a parcel of land in St. Alban's with construction completed in October 2021.^[2][3][4]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir had a population of 669 living in 320 of its 358 total private dwellings, a change of -10.7% from its 2016 population of 749. With a land area of 24.95 km² (9.63 sq mi), it had a population density of 26.8/km² (69.4/sq mi) in 2021.^[5]

See also

• Bay d'Espoir
• Bay d'Espoir Hydroelectric Power Station
• List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador