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Deer Lake, NL, Town, pop 4827 (2006c), 4769 (2001c), inc 1950. Deer Lake is located at the north end of Deer Lake in western Newfoundland. The east shore of the lake was settled in 1867 by a Cape Breton Island family who began an operation to cut pine trees. The site was named Nicholsville and expanded with the building of the railway in the 1880s and 1890s.
In 1923 Deer Lake was selected as the site of a power plant to support a pulp and paper mill at nearby CORNER BROOK. In 1955 an airstrip was built here and it has been developed into a regional airport. The airport is a significant employer in the town and it, with highway connections to Bay of Islands, Humber Valley, Great Northern Peninsula and Baie Verte Peninsula, has made Deer Lake one of the main pulpwood, service and transportation centres of Newfoundland. In 1994, Deer Lake’s boundaries were extended when it amalgamated with 2 smaller communities, Nicholsville and Spillway.
 Deer Lake
Author
JANET E.M. PITT and ROBERT D. PITT
Links to Other Sites
Deer Lake
The website for the Town of Dear Lake. Offers information for visitors and residents of this area.
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