People from the community freely chose to move to other places in the province during the resettlement program of the 1950s and 60s.

[3] Prior to any settlement within Haystack, its close proximity to good fishing grounds it served as a seasonal base for fisherman.

[2] In the 1845 census Haystack was no longer combined with Spencers Cove which recorded 11 people from two (2) families.

[2] Lovell's Newfoundland Directory (1871) notes some of the first inhabitants of haystack as Robert Coffin, planter, and James Allen, Thomas Drake, Samuel and Thomas Gilbert, Edward Hanna, John King, Joseph Upshall and Isaac Wakeley as fisherman.

The property was designated as a representative example of those buildings that were floated out across Placentia Bay during the resettlement period.