Petty HarbourâÂÂMaddox Cove is a town of approximately 950 people located on the eastern shore of the Avalon Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is nestled deep in the heart of Motion Bay about south of St. John's. The present town is approximately 200 years old, though the site has been continuously occupied by Europeans (Beothuk history at the site is tens of thousands of years old) since at least 1598. During King William's War, the village was raided by French forces in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign.
Petty HarbourâÂÂMaddox Cove is the site of the Petty Harbour Generating Station, the first hydroelectric generating station in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The name Petty Harbour is the anglicized form of the French name , which means 'small harbour'. It was first settled by French colonists.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Petty HarbourâÂÂMaddox Cove had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.