7-673: Biscay Bay is a local service district in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador . This name appears as early as 1675 in The English Pilot, a guide to navigation. At the time, Basques were called " Biscayans ", and the bay was used by the early Basque fishermen. There is very little known about Biscay Bay before 1845, but most of the land area of Biscay Bay was owned by William D. Jackson, an English merchant, when Thomas Ryan of Trepassey (originally from Ireland ) went to live there in that year. Other families at
14-402: Is almost void of trees. The area boasted abundant partridge berries , bakeapples , rabbits , partridges , eider duck , fox , beaver , muskrat and weasel . The coming of the branch railway in 1913 added extra impetus to the area, as it had a sawmill in 1920. Biscay Bay is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to
21-549: The community. The chair of the LSD committee is Yvonne Skinner. 46°44′35″N 53°17′31″W / 46.743°N 53.292°W / 46.743; -53.292 This Newfoundland and Labrador location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local service district (Newfoundland and Labrador) The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has 175 unincorporated communities that are designated as local service districts (LSDs) for
28-472: The province's Municipalities Act is the legislation that provides the authority to designate an LSD. Upon receiving a petition led by a permanent resident of a certain area that is signed by the majority of permanent residents of that area, the provincial minister responsible for the Municipalities Act may issue an order to incorporate an LSD for the area. The order assigns the official name of
35-453: The purpose of providing water, sewer, fire, garbage, street lighting, animal control, and/or road maintenance services to ratepayers within a defined area. The services in an LSD are overseen by a committee of five to seven elected officials and delivered by hired staff. The costs are recovered by the LSD committee through taxes levied upon residents and other benefitting parties in the defined area. The Local Service District Regulations of
42-760: The time were the Easemans and Whites. Biscay Bay is in Newfoundland within Subdivision V of Division No. 1 . The census of 1857 shows Biscay Bay with 4.5 acres (18,000 m) of improved land producing 20 barrels of potatoes and three tons of hay . When Jackson died, his daughter Caroline decided to go back to live in England so she sold the land to Thomas Ryan and Richard Hartery for 150 pounds. Residents farmed root crops and hay, raised sheep , cattle and pigs and also fished for cod inshore. It
49-467: Was not until the early 1930s that the road made much difference to the community and most transportation was by water. The community averaged 600 quintals of saltfish annually in the late 1930s and early 1940s, but 1943 was a good year when 970 quintals were made and sold for $ 12.50 per quintal. Very heavy timber grew along the shore of Path End but as the years went by, it became necessary to go farther and farther inland to get wood. Today, Biscay Bay
#811188