Connaigre, Newfoundland and Labrador

Connaigre was a small fishing community located on the southern tip of the Connaigre Peninsula of the south coast of the Island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Connaigre was listed as Cap Negre (Cape Negro) in the Census of French Population and Agriculture, 1686[1] with a total population of seventy-two.

[2] Connaigre was also called Great Harbour in the 1763 census, with 5 inhabitants and twenty-eight servants recorded.

[2] In 1954 the entire community of twelve remaining families was resettled under the Centralization Program by the Newfoundland government.

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