Carmanville, on the northeastern coast of Newfoundland, was first settled by John Day, from Twillingate, and his family.

Rocky Bay was changed to Carmanville on June 18, 1906 after the General Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Canada, Rev.

[2] The 1836 Census show the population at Rocky Bay as being Protestant Episcopalians and later as Church of England.

[3] Early education in Carmanville was divided up between Roman Catholic and Protestant schools with little help from the colonial government.

They eventually outgrew the one room school-chapel and in 1904 a new, larger, two-room school was built on church property.

[5] Carmanville is a small fishing settlement in the Twillingate and Fogo district on the straight shore.