Upper Amherst Cove, is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Situated approximately 20 kilometers southeast of Bonavista, it lies just off Route 235. [1]
The nearest post office dates back to 1864 in Trinity Bay. The community was first settled by inshore fishermen in the mid-1800s, attracted by the abundant local resources. In addition to the cod fishery, residents engaged in winter logging in Blackhead Bay, which supplemented their incomes. [2]
Upper Amherst Cove is in Newfoundland within Subdivision G of Division No. 7.[3] It is near Bonavista, just off Route 235.
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Upper Amherst Cove recorded a population of 41 living in 19 of its 30 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 36. With a land area of 1.59km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]
Upper Amherst Cove is a local service district (LSD)[5] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[6] The chair of the LSD committee is David Borland.[5]