| Official Name: | Garnish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Town | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | left | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Population Total: | 542 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 47.2333°N -77°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website: | www.townofgarnish.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Garnish, a town located on the west coast of the Burin Peninsula, was well known for its lumbering and now for its lobstering operations. Located on Route 213, it is 25 km along route 220 north west of Grand Bank and 18 km along Route 220 east of Marystown. The Way Office was established in 1852 and the first Waymaster was Henry Campe. In 2021, the town had a population of 542.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Garnish had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 39.1km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]