Come By Chance, Newfoundland and Labrador

Come By Chance is a Canadian port settlement.

It lies on the Placentia Bay on the Avalon Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Come by Chance has 247 inhabitants (as of 2011 ).

History

The originally designated by the Governor John Guy as a passage Harbour in 1612 settlement was known since 1706 under the name Comby chance. After a telegraph station was still being built in the early 20th century, colonization of the 1930s was again strong. For centuries, the local fishing formed an economic cornerstone of the settlement and region.

Its present name recognition received Come By Chance by the built in the early 1970s, oil refinery with the associated deep-water oil terminal. The company was inaugurated in 1973 just three years later insolvent and ceased operations. After several sales, in 1986 for one U.S. dollar to the U.S. company Energy Newfoundland, they took the refinery in 1987 again. Today, Come By Chance is one of the largest ports in Canada, as measured by cargo volume.