Pacquet

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pacquet ("hideaway" in French) is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 210 in the Canada 2006 Census.Located in White Bay, on the Baie Verte Peninsula in North-Eastern Newfoundland, it was surveyed in 1801 by Capt. Edgell, Edgell Island being his namesake.It is not known for certain when Pacquet was first settled. A fishing and logging community, it is on what was once part of the French Shore, so it is likely that it was first settled by French-speaking fishermen. Pacquet (then spelled "Paquet") was a base for French seasonal fishermen from about the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Frenchmen continued to visit its sheltered harbour until late in the nineteenth century.