Gander Bay South is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Gander Bay was a small place in the Fogo and Twillingate area in 1864. It was north of Gander. The way office opened in 1885 and the first waymaster was John Bursey. It became a post office on May 30, 1891, and the first postmaster was James Rowsell. It had no population after 1940. They moved to Gander Bay South.
Geography
Gander Bay South is in Newfoundland within Subdivision L of Division No. 8.[1]
Demographics
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gander Bay South recorded a population of 325 living in 124 of its 138 total private dwellings, a change of 4.5% from its 2011 population of 311. With a land area of 5.31 km2 (2.05 sq mi), it had a population density of 61.2/km2 (158.5/sq mi) in 2016.[2]
Government
Gander Bay South is a local service district (LSD)[3] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[4] The chair of the LSD committee is Marvin Hodder.[3]
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