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Victoria - History Timeline

1817 – Victoria is being used as a source of lumber and firewood.

1859 – Documents show that land along the Heart’s Content road was granted to Nicholas Powell.

1869 – Population is listed as 200.

1884 – Victoria Village has a population of 448 residents. There are two Methodist Churches and 378 of the population are Methodist.

1800’s (late) – Many residents of Victoria sign on for the Labrador Fishery with merchants in Carbonear, Harbour Grace and Northern Bay.

1900’s (early) – Other people find employment in lumbering, the railway and mining at Bell Island and Cape Breton.

1905 – An electric power station is running in the community.

1921 – Sawmills are affected when a forest fire destroys much of the timber in the area. Nicholas Powell and Reuben, William and Nicholas Clarke are the merchants in Victoria.

1924 – An independent congregation (later joins the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland) is established by Victoria native Eugene Vaters.

1935 - The Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland has more than 300 members in Victoria. Twenty-eight families from Victoria, take part in a land settlement program and move to Markland.

1985 – Victoria Electrical Museum is opened.

1990’s – Few residents are engaged in the fishery instead they are employed in local services in Carbonear or elsewhere.

1994 – Persalvic Elementary and regional high school serve the students of Perry’s Cove, Salmon Cove and Victoria. There is a Pentecostal elementary school. Other services in the area include: a town hall, library and a fire department.