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Wreck Cove

settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ8037665 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wreck Cove, originally known as Tibbos Hill, is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located in Fortune Bay, south west of Belleoram.

The first postmistress was Olive Sheppard. The community is now a part of the town of St. Jacques-Coomb's Cove.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wreck, Cove and settlement providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8037665. Authority coordinates are 47.496, -55.606. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wreck Cove” 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.