Halls Bay has been the determining point for the northern route of the Newfoundland Railway and then the location of the Trans-Canada Highway and is commonly referred to as the Halls Bay Line.
Communities located in Halls Bay are; Springdale, South Brook and Port Anson.
The Bay is believed to be named after a Captain Hall, who may have established a colonial settlement there in the 1820s to prosecute the local salmon fishery.
A local legend claims Hall may have lost his head there in a conflict with Indigenous people, but historians of the same period disputed this.
[1] Mattie Mitchell (1846-1921) - Mi’kmaq Chieftain, guide, prospector, and explorer.