Population: 519 (1996)
542 (1981)

Incorporated: 1970

Located about 20km north of Heart's Content, on the east side of Trinity Bay is the community of Hant's Harbour. This settlement is built around a small harbour which opens on the north to Trinity Bay. The harbour waters are able to accommodate vessels up to 100 tons, the landscapes which surround it are low hills (rocky and barren).

Like most of the early settlements, the population grew very slowly
during the eighteenth century.

From the beginning the economy of Hant's Harbour was based mainly on the fisheries, until the nineteenth century when it was the inshore cod fishery and the Labrador fishery during the latter half of the century. During the nineteenth and twentieth century was also seasonally an important source of income.

Like many other early settlements of the east side of Trinity Bay, Hant's Habour early residents were mostly of the Church of England, during the eighteenth century they depended upon the services of clergy on the irregular visits of the missionaries for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, stationed at Trinity.

The rise and rapid growth of Methodism in Hant's Harbour caused the Church of England (later Anglican Church) community to remain small, its members being served the clergy stationed at nearby parishes. In the early twentieth century the Salvation Army came to Hant's Harbour and gradually built up a substantial membership, and constructed a citadel there.