page_title: Silver Fox Island
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Silver Fox Island / History
caption_attribution_description: Title / Titre&#160;: A house being floated from Silver Fox Island, Bonavista Bay, to Dover, Newfoundland / Maison déménagée sur l’eau, de l’île Silver Fox, dans la baie de Bonavista, à Dover (Terre-Neuve) Creator(s) / Créateur(s)&#160;: B. Brooks Date(s)&#160;: 1961 Reference No. / Numéro de référence&#160;: MIKAN 4301898, 4314208 collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;... collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;... Location / Lieu&#160;: Dover, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada / Dover, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Canada Credit / Mention de source&#160;: B. Brooks. National Film Board of Canada. Still Photography Division. Library and Archives Canada, e010975948 / B. Brooks. Office national du film du Canada. Service de la photographie. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e010975948
context_page_description: Located on the northwest side of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland at the mouth of the Indian Bay inlet is a small island named Silver Fox Island that was once inhabited. It is about 3 km in length and about 3 km from Fair Island. The first settling began at Warren's Harbour on the southern side of the island.
context_section_description: Warren's Harbour was the first settled, named after an early settler, John Warren, who was living at Salvage, Newfoundland, in 1675. Warren's Harbour appears in the 1836 Census with a population of eight, of the same family. By 1869 there were five families living there, the Buttons, Felthams, Hunts, Matthews', and Rogers' families. In 1884 the population was 49, there was a slow population growth, and in 1901 there were 82 people living there.
  Silver Fox Island was not located near any major fishing grounds so they relied heavily on the Labrador fishery and woods work in Indian Bay during the winter.
  By the mid-1950s most families were relocating to nearby communities such as Indian Bay and Wareham. By 1969 the island was completely abandoned.
caption: Resettlement of Silver Fox Island in 1961: a house being relocated to Dover.
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