Population: 627 (1996)
316 (1981)

Located about 5kms south of Clarke's Beach is the community of Makinsons.

To the south of the community Clarke's Beach, the South River expands to become a pond, known locally as the Gut. The head of the Gut is known as the Broads. It is likely that this is the site of winter camps for fishermen of the Port de Grave area from the 1700's and that some families eventually settled around the Gut. As permanent settlement began most settlers took fertile lands in the valley. People from Cupids employed the top of the ridge for winter woods work and people from Brigus largely used an area to the south, the Golds, or Goulds.

It is hard to trace the growth to what is now Makinsons through census records, as the place names under which the population is recorded changed quite a lot. Juniper Stump first recorded in the census in 1857 with a population of 79, in 1869 it does not appear at all. Other times separate population figures are given under other names, such as Cochranedale, Riverside Mills, Hodge Water Road, Turks Water, Emerald Vale and Makinsons.

At the end of World War II the grandson of the original George Makinson, took over the family farm and soon built a business supplying dairy products by railway to the American Military Base at Argentia.