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Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador

designated place in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ2377039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bellevue is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Geography

Bellevue is in Newfoundland within Subdivision A of Division No. 1.

Demographics

As a designated place in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bellevue recorded a population of 237 living in 81 of its 144 total private dwellings, a change of 48% from its 2011 population of 165. With a land area of 10.37 km2 (4.00 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.9/km2 (41.2/sq mi) in 2016.

Government

Bellevue is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Gordon McCarthy.

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The public source identifies “Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador” as designated place in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2377039. Authority coordinates are 47.633, -53.750. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2011 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bellevue, Newfoundland and Labrador” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.