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Shoe Cove is located at the head of the Baie Verte Peninsula on the Northeast coast of Newfoundland, two miles off route 414.
Shoe Cove has been settled since at least 1800. There are reports that salmon fishery exports were being made at that time. Shoe Cove was once known as Shoe Cove Brook, with two other settlements called Stage Cove and Shoe Cove Bight. These were abandoned in about 1970 so now all three are called Shoe Cove. Although Shoe Cove was settled by English, Scottish and Irish fisherfolk, it was very close to the French Shore area. In fact, a boat by the English fishery was stationed there until the Treaty of Utrecth.
People depended largely on the fishery then and now. At one time a cod liver oil factory operated there.
A photographers delight, Shoe Cove is one of the peninsula's most scenic communities.
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