Division No. 1, Subdivision I, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bristol’s Hope is an unorganized subdivision on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division 1 and contains the unincorporated community of Bristol's Hope.

Bristol’s Hope
Unorganized territory
Bristol’s Hope
Bristol’s Hope
Coordinates: 47°43′03″N 53°11′19″W
Country	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador
Census division	Division 1
Government
• MLA	Steve Crocker (LPNL, Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde)
• MP	Ken McDonald (LPC, Avalon)
Area
• Land	65.43 km2 (25.26 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	299
• Density	4.6/km2 (12/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight)
Highways	Route 70

Bristol's Hope

Bristol's Hope is the modern name of a community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on Conception Bay between Carbonear and Harbour Grace.

The place names Musket's Cove and Mosquito have been used since about the 1630s to refer to the area now called Bristol's Hope (Seary 1971: 63). The community was renamed in 1904 to commemorate the 1617 outpost of that name, an offshoot of the John Guy colony established at Cupids, ten miles away, in 1610 (Dale 1981a).

The Plantation of Bristol's Hope was the second English colony in Newfoundland established by the Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers. It was a "sister" colony to Cuper's Cove, established in 1618 with a land grant from King James I of England, and was settled by some of the colonists from Cuper's Cove. Robert Hayman was the colony's only Proprietary Governor as this colony only existed until about 1631 before being abandoned. Although some accounts have the original colony centred at present-day Harbour Grace, the Plantation itself was much larger and included the modern location.

According to the 1677 Newfoundland Census, there were two households with permanent residences in "Musketa" consisting of thirteen family members and twenty-three servants. When the region came under attack from the French in 1697, their records list "Mosquit" as having "3 planters, 5 boats, and 2500 codfish". The current population is fewer than 200 people.

Possibly the settlement's most famous native-son was General Sir Henry Pynn, who fought under Wellington in the Peninsular War against Napoleon, and was the first native-born Newfoundlander to be knighted. His ancestor was one of the leaders in the successful defence of Carbonear Island against the French under D’Iberville in 1697.

References

• Dale, J. Ralph. 1981a. "Bristol’s Hope." ENL, I. St. John's: NBP. 264-265
• Duckert, Audrey R. (1971-10-01). "Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland, by E. R. Seary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (Memorial University Series 2), 1971. Pp. xiii + 383". Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique. 17 (1): 63–65. doi:10.1017/S0008413100006940. ISSN 0008-4131.
• SMALLWOOD, J.R. 1941. "Newfoundland 1941 Hand Book". Gazetteer. St. John's.