Hermitage Bay

Hermitage Bay lies on Newfoundland's southern coast, where Long Island separates its outer waters from Bay d'Espoir. Mi'kmaq families hunted, fished and trapped along the south coast during the seventeenth century, while French fishing crews and residents worked from harbours including Hermitage Cove. At the eastern entrance, near Pass Island, fishing settlements grew around the sheltered shore; nearby Gaultois became a base for the Newfoundland trade of the Newman company during the eighteenth century.