For example, Petley includes the area known as Aspen (Apsey) Cove, often considered its own community, and Weybridge has in the past been known as Fosters Point.

They were unable to avoid interactions, and experienced population decline due to new diseases, loss of access to important food sources, and violence from colonizers.

Deer Harbor and Thoroughfare were settled nearby in the 1800s as fishing traffic to Random Island grew.

By 1900, Hickman's Harbour, the site of the best deep-water anchorage, had become the centre of the Random Island fishing and shipbuilding industries.

Other methods of employment include sawmilling and slate mining, though the actual quarry was across the sound in Nut Cove.

[citation needed] However, the industries that had supported Random Island for over a hundred years began to collapse in the early 20th century.

Constructing the Hefferton Causeway, followed by road upgrades, greatly facilitated travel to Clarenville and the rest of Newfoundland.

[3] According to Dirk Septer in his book "Lost Nuke: The Last Flight of Bomber 075", Heritage House Victoria,(2016) ISBN 9781772031294, a United States Air Force B-36, en route from the Azores to South Dakota, crashed at Nut Cove on March 18, 1953.

A total of 22 crew members died including Brigidier General Richard E. Ellsworth after whom the American Air Base Rapid City South Dakota, is now named.