Burin Peninsula

For centuries, there were plentiful cod, other fish and crustaceans in the area. The seafood supplied a thriving fishing industry. The eventual collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery led to local mass unemployment during the second half of the 1990s.

In response to a decline in the cod fishery industry, the Newfoundland government refurbished the Marystown shipyard in 1992.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} Ownership left Canada when the American company Friede Goldman Ltd. bought the facility in 1998, and remained in American hands when ownership changed again in 2002 to Kiewit Offshore Services Ltd.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} By 2019, the shipyard had been idle for four years and was acquired by Marbase Marystown Inc. (usually just Marbase), under a 20-year lease with the intention of establishing a service hub supporting regional aquaculture, the first of its kind in Canada.{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Terry|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/marystown-shipyard-sale-approval-1.5297903|title=Sale of Marystown shipyard raises hopes for aquaculture growth, job creation|date=26 September 2019|work=CBC.ca|access-date=21 March 2020|publisher=CBC}}{{Cite news|last=Farrell|first=Colin|url=https://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/marystown-marine-workers-happy-with-final-agreement-with-marbase-263490/|title=Marystown Marine Workers happy with final agreement with Marbase|date=28 November 2018|work=The Telegram|access-date=21 March 2020|publisher=Saltwire Network|location=St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador}} Marbase is a partnership between one Newfoundland businessman, Paul Antle, and the Norwegian company Amar Group AS.

In 2019, Marbase Cleanerfish Ltd., began work on a commercial lumpfish hatchery in Marystown, with an anticipated customer base of Atlantic salmon farm operators.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mae.gov.nl.ca/env_assessment/projects/Y2019/2062/index.html|title=Marystown Marbase Cleanerfish Hatchery|year=2020|website=Environmental Assessment - Projects|publisher=Government of Newfoundland and Labrador|id=Registration 2062|access-date=21 March 2020}} As of 2020, government approval of the work in relation to environmental impact had not yet been completed.

Fluorspar (also called fluorite) deposits had been noted on the peninsula as early as 1843; however, it was not until 1933 that mining began. The operation was started by American Walter Siebert whose company was named the St. Lawrence Corporation of Newfoundland. Backbreaking work and no pay initially, finally led to a more significant mine by 1937; a second mine also opened in 1937, the American Newfoundland Fluorspar Company.

The fluorspar mines in St. Lawrence were major employers until business declined in the 1970s; the mines had closed by 1978. In 2011, Canada Fluorspar Inc. outlined preparations to open a fluorspar mine on the site of the old mine. The federal government provided $5 million in funding in 2017 and the provincial government provided a loan of $17 million to finance the re-opening. Production finally commenced in mid-2018.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fluorspar-mine-investment-st-lawrence-1.4026074|title=St. Lawrence fluorspar mine gets $5M from feds, hundreds of jobs touted|publisher=CBC News|date=March 15, 2017}}[https://www.thetelegram.com/business/first-fluorspar-from-st-lawrence-mine-to-ship-this-week-haley-232359/ First fluorspar from St. Lawrence mine to ship this week: Haley]

Route 210 traverses the length of the Burin Peninsula, running along the northwest side of the peninsula between Marystown and Fortune.{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/flooding-damage-leaves-burin-peninsula-reeling-1.1310192| title = Flooding damage leaves Burin Peninsula reeling {{!}} CBC News}} Route 220 runs from Fortune to Marystown on the southern side. A short connecting road Route 222 runs between these two roads west of Marystown. Routes 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, and 221 are numbered local roads.

The Burin Peninsula's economy is tied to the ocean, consequently most of its settlements are located on the coast; some are outports and have no road connection (such as South East Bight).{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/life-in-south-east-bight-gallery-1.4410246|title=Faces and Places: A peek inside the isolated outport of South East Bight|website=cbc.ca|publisher=CBC News|access-date=October 2, 2020|date=November 25, 2017|first=Paula|last=Gale}}{{cite web |title=South East Bight – Petite Forte ferry schedule |url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/ti/ferryservices/schedules/p-southeas/ |website=Transportation and Infrastructure |publisher=Government of Newfoundland and Labrador |access-date=2 October 2020}} Rencontre East, another isolated community, is accessible by a ferry port in Bay L'Argent and travels to Pool's Cove on the Connaigre Peninsula via Rencontre East.{{cite news |url=https://www.capebretonpost.com/opinion/columnists/touring-newfoundlands-connaigre-peninsula-21191/ |title=Touring Newfoundland's Connaigre Peninsula |date=November 17, 2016 |publisher=Saltwire Network |work=Cape Breton Post |accessdate=October 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707011610/https://www.capebretonpost.com/opinion/columnists/touring-newfoundlands-connaigre-peninsula-21191/ |archive-date=7 July 2019 |url-status=dead}}

The French Islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon are the last colonies of France in North America, they are located just a 25 km ferry ride from Fortune.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/st-pierre-miquelon-tourism-sector-bracing-for-covid-19-challenges-431062/|title = St-Pierre-Miquelon tourism sector bracing for COVID-19 challenges | SaltWire}}{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/burin-peninsula-fortune-st-pierre-miquelon-new-ferry-1.4348768| title = Burin Peninsula hopes to cash in as St-Pierre-Miquelon gets new car ferries {{!}} CBC News}}

Communities on the north coast of the peninsula, beginning in the east:

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• Terrenceville
• Harbour Mille
• Little Harbour East
• Bay L'Argent
• St. Bernard's-Jacques Fontaine
• Point Enragée
• Garnish
• Frenchman's Cove
• L'Anse-au-Loup
• Grand Bank
• Fortune

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Communities on the south coast of the peninsula, beginning in the west:

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• Lories
• Point May
• Calmer
• High Beach
• Allan's Island
• Lamaline
• Point au Gaul
• Taylor's Bay
• Lord's Cove
• Roundabout
• Lawn
• Little St. Lawrence
• St. Lawrence
• Epworth
• Lewin's Cove
• Burin Bay Arm
• Burin
• Port au Bras
• Fox Cove-Mortier
• Little Bay, Placentia Bay
• Creston
• Creston North
• Marystown
• Spanish Room
• Rock Harbour
• Jean De Baie
• Red Harbour
• Rushoon
• Baine Harbour
• Parkers Cove
• Boat Harbour West
• Boat Harbour
• Brookside
• Davis Cove
• Sandy Harbour
• Monkstown
• Great Paradise
• Little Paradise
• St. Joseph's
• Port Anne
• Petite Forte
• Clattice Harbour
• Clattice South West
• Burnt Island
• Murphy's Cove
• Isle Valen
• Darby's Harbour
• Great Bona
• Little Bona
• Southeast Bight
• Toslow
• Presque
• Saint Annes
• Saint Leonards
• Winterland

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• 1929 Grand Banks earthquake
• Frenchman's Cove Provincial Park
• St. Lawrence Laurentians

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