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- The Move
A video on the resettlement of the Rumboldt family
in 1968.
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Home  Virtual Exhibits Resettlement Cape Cove
Cape Cove
Cape Cove (pop. 1945, 51) was a resettled community located on the northeast side of Fogo Island and was settled in the early 1800s by Irish Roman Catholic settlers. E.R. Seary (1976) records a Catherine Kennedy as a resident of Cape Cove in 1827 and the settlement is first reported in the Census of 1845, with a population of three, all involved in fishing (cod) and sealing.
By 1901 the population had reached 41, composed of 10 families, all Roman Catholic, with one school reported operating. Fishing remained the economic base of Cape Cove, which was accessible only by boat. This extreme isolation and the decline of the cod and seal fisheries in the 1930s led to the resettlement of Cape Cove and by 1953 it was one of 29 Newfoundland communities resettled, at an average cost of $301 per family.
From the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
House of Albert Cluett, Sr. being moved
from Cape Cove to Tilting, June 1959
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Caribou grazing at Cape Cove near Bernard Cluett's abandoned house, 199-
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House of Albert Cluett, Sr. in Tilting, Fogo Island, 2006
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House of Albert Cluett, Sr. in Tilting, Fogo Island, 2009
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Former Cape Cove house used as a barn in Tilting, Fogo Island, 2009
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