Terra Nova is a town located southwest of Glovertown on the island of Newfoundland. It was served by the Canadian National Railway in the 1950s. The population in 2006 was 68, this from a historic low of just 28 in 1996. By 2016, the population had risen to 73, down slightly from the total of 83 recorded in 2011. There is a sizable leisure and summer population here seasonally as well as the stable permanent population.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Terra Nova had a population of 99 living in 52 of its 164 total private dwellings, a change of 35.6% from its 2016 population of 73. With a land area of 2.44 km2 (0.94 sq mi), it had a population density of 40.6/km2 (105.1/sq mi) in 2021.[1]
