[1] Popular family names in the town include Turpin, Tarrant, Slaney, Pike, Lake, Drake and Edwards.

Sixteen of her crew drifted in a lifeboat for seven days before coming ashore on the South Coast in Little St. Lawrence.

Richard Clarke, the master of the doomed ship, wrote a dramatic account of the event in 1584.

Tremendous community efforts and personal bravery by the citizens of Lawn and St. Lawrence reduced the high death toll.

[11] In 1992, a memorial entitled 'Echoes of Valour' was erected in dedication of the mining industry in St. Lawrence, the sailors who died in the disasters, and those who lost their lives in the world wars.

[3] Fishing was the main economic activity of the area for hundreds of years due to the proximity of St. Lawrence with the Grand Banks.

The operation was started by American Walter Siebert whose company was named the St. Lawrence Corporation of Newfoundland.

[13] The author of a book published in 2019 spoke of the "deaths and serious injuries from the beginning in a manifestly unsafe workplace" in an interview with Maclean's.

[14][15] In spring 2019, the company was planning to develop a new shipping port on the west side of Burin Peninsula as a more affordable means of moving their product to markets.

With dwindling enrollment in the 1990s the school was renamed St. Lawrence Academy and encompassed K-6 upon the closure of Marion Elementary in 1999.

The seasonal lag rivals that of the Pacific coast in California, with August being the warmest month and September and July having very similar temperatures.