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Harbour Round is located approximately 3 km off Route 414, Northeast of La Scie. It is separated from Brent's Cove by a white-coloured point of land which rises to a high, steep, round hill. Although small, Harbour Round itself is protected, the southwestern part of the bay is unsheltered and inaccessible by boat. Harbour Round was used as a French fishing station in the early Seventeenth Century because it was located near the excellent fishing grounds off Cape St. John. As described in a fisheries report of 1857 Harbour Round was occupied by only one family who had come to the area to guard the fishing equipment and supplies of the French fishermen who returned to their homelands for the winter months.
Lovell's Newfoundland Directory (1871) reports that Harbour Round, "a small fishing station on the French Shore," was first occupied by Peter Layman, a fisherman. Other families that were later recorded in the settlement were Aylward, Drover, Haas, Payne, Furey, Skinner and Seymour.
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