Happy Adventure is an outport village on the Eastport Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As of 2016, the population was 200. Take a look below for 12 amazing and interesting facts about Happy Adventure, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

1. Happy Adventure consists of three well-defined inlets known locally as of Upper Cove, Little Sandy Cove, and Lower Cove (which also contains a smaller attached cove known as Powell’s Cove).

2. Work in the region traditionally focused on the abundant natural resources.

3. Inshore fishing, farming, and logging were still the chief source of employment for most of the inhabitants well into the 20th century.

4. The lumber industry, however, faded away with the development of Terra Nova National Park in the 1950s.

5. Happy Adventure is still home to one operational fishplant (2009) that processes crab, capelin and other marine species.

6. Being adjacent to Terra Nova National Park and the beautiful sandy beaches of Eastport, increasingly inhabitants have found work in the tourism industry.

7. The origin of the village name is a matter of some controversy.

8. According to local lore, the name, which was first referenced in 1817, could have had any one of three origins.

9. Some speculate it is a reflection of the joyful experience of the first settlers in finding such a welcoming environs.

10. Alternatively, it has been postulated that the community was named to commemorate a ship belonging to 17th-century pirate Peter Easton.

11. Still others suggest the community was named by George Holbrook, a British Admiralty hydrographer.

12. Holbrook surveyed Newman Sound in 1817 and sheltered in one of Happy Adventure’s coves during a storm.