The Connaigre Peninsula is a Canadian

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located on the south coast of the island of

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in the province of

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. Harbour Breton is the largest population centre on the peninsula. The Connaigre Peninsula is triangular shaped, separating

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on the western side and Belle Bay along with

Fortune Bay Fortune Bay () is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada.Connaigre that was resettled in 1954 under the Centralization Programme by the Newfoundland government.

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, Volume one, page 504 Route 360 extends the length of the Peninsula starting near Bishop's Falls and ending at Harbour Breton. Route 362 extends from Route 360 to communities such as Belleoram and St. Jacques-Coomb's Cove (St. Jacques,

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, Mose Ambrose, Boxey, Coomb's Cove, and Wreck Cove). Pool's Cove has road access via the 8.1-kilometre-long (5.0 mi) Pool's Cove Road, connecting the town with Route 362. Route 364 extends from Route 360 to communities such as Hermitage-Sandyville, Dawson's Cove, Seal Cove and Pass Island. A daily ferry service from Hermitage travels to the isolated outports of Gaultois and McCallum. Rencontre East, another isolated community, is accessible by a ferry port in Pool's Cove on the Connaigre Peninsula and travels to

Bay L'Argent Bay L'Argent ( ) is a town in the Canada, Canadian Provinces of Canada, province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The ferry MV Terra Nova has a port in Bay L'Argent servicing the Newfoundland outport, isolated outport of Rencontre East with another ...

on the

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via Rencontre East.

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