History of Winterland

Winterland is a small community between  Garnish and Marystown on the ankle of the Burin Peninsula.  Winterland is the only inland community on the Burin Peninsula.
In 1939 the government resettled people into Winterland from the islands around Placentia Bay and Fortune Bay.  In the Winterland area  there were acres of  land suitable for growing crops and raising  livestock.  Between the 1940`s and 1950`s the community started growing, and now it's the only community on the Burin Peninsula that farms.  However, there are only four to six families from the early settlers that still farm.  The remaining people  leave the community to work in the area.
 

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