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Noder Cove gets its name from its position to the north of the nearby community of Greenland. It was originally called “Northern Cove” but, with time and the local dialect, Northern became Noder, and the name stuck.¹
This area actually encompassed two communities, Morgan's Cove and Noder Cove proper, and was more spread out compared to Greenland and Deep Gulch. While the Morgan families could be found in both halves of Noder Cove, there were more of them living in Morgan's Cove. Noder Cove families included the Fowlers, Tuckers, Dawes, and a few Morgans.²
The majority of the families here were Anglican. The handful of Roman Catholics, like the Walsh family in Deep Gulch, sent their children to the Anglican school for convenience.
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Noder Cove, looking across Bay de Grave towards Port de Grave. |
Two people are buried somewhere close to the end of Morgan's Road, which runs between Noder Cove and Morgan's Cove. They are believed to be a mother and child belonging to one of the earliest families to settle in the area, the Byrnes. Because they were Catholic, they could not be buried in the Anglican cemetery, and so were interred on their family land. Their graves were marked with field stones or large flat slate rocks (perhaps taken from the quarry in Deep Gulch). Today the area has become so grown over that it is quite difficult to find them.³
The families of Noder Cove prospered until the late 1930s or early 1940s when, with a collapse in the local cod stocks and the opening of the Argentia naval base, it became necessary for men to travel further afield to find work. It was simply easier to move to a better location and avail of modern conveniences, including the electricity that other towns were connected to. It is thought that the first house in Noder Cove to be abandoned belonged to Betty Morgan. She moved to live with her relative Ebenezer Dawe after her husband died.