[1] Located directly between the communities of English Harbour East and Grand le Pierre in Fortune Bay, Pays Cove was first settled in the late 1800s[2] by the family of Cyrus White who were recorded in the 1904 Business Directory for the town that year.

'[1] At about 1914, the families of William and Alfred Barnes moved to Pays Cove to settle from Harbour Mille.

[1] With very limited space in the cove for settlement, the community never rose above two or three families throughout its entire occupation.

[1] Pays Cove was first recorded in the 1901 census with a population of two,[4] later identified as the family of Cyrus and Elizabeth White.

[5] It is adapted below: In the 1945 Newfoundland Census, Pays Cove's population was recorded at 7 people.