Pacquet ("hideaway" in French)[2] is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Located in White Bay, on the Baie Verte Peninsula in northeastern Newfoundland, it was surveyed in 1801 by Capt.

Pacquet (then spelled "Paquet") was a base for French seasonal fishermen from about the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Frenchmen continued to visit its sheltered harbour until late in the nineteenth century.

[citation needed] The first recorded residents were an elderly man and a young girl, who were there by 1857.

[4] Twelve years later, two Roman Catholic families were in residence, but the population did not grow substantially until the 1880s, when the French officially left the area.