1753 - Census reports one Irish and two English servants wintering in New Harbour.

1754 - Trinity Court records report a dispute between Edward Fisher and Cornealle Button over land at "Quines Poyht" in New Harbour.

1770 - Church records at Trinity record the birth of Richard the son of John and Mary Thornton (Thorne) at New Harbour.

1774 - James Haylar (Hillier) of Netherbury, Dorset marries Mary Thorne of New Harbour.

1785 - William Pollett marries Priscilla Hefford.

1800 - Nine families are recorded at New Harbour. Family names include: Thorne, Hillier, Pollett, Hefford, George and Hoskins.

1806 - Charles Newhook II arrives at New Harbour and begins a shipbuilding operation. Shipbuilding will continue as an important part of the New Harbour economy for the next 100 years.

1815 - St. George's Anglican Church is erected.

1830 - First teacher appointed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

1836 - The population of New Harbour listed as 194.

1841 - First school erected with twenty-six children enrolled.

1900 - Writer Ron Pollett is born at New Harbour. He will later go on to write exclusively about his early life in outport in Newfoundland.

1913- New Harbour has a station on the Heart’s Content branch railway. The railway had the effect of increasing the frequency of forest fires in the area and had a disastrous effect on saw milling, especially after the great fire of the early 1920’s.

1930’s- The Labrador and shore fisheries in the area are both declining, shortly after the Labrador fishery soon came to a halt.

1950’s-1960’s- The Pothead whale harvesting is an important part of the local economy.

1991- Higgons Seafood’s and Woodman Sea Products are the Communities major employers, while there is still work in other industries.