Hawkes Bay is a lumbering community located on the South-East Side of Hawkes Bay on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. In late 1800s, the timber of the area was described as good.

In 1933 the International Power and Paper Company began to cut pulpwood in the area to supply the newsprint mill in Corner Brook. By 1935 many men from surrounding communities were employed in the woods operation. The International Power and Paper closed its Hawkes Bay woods operation in 1938.

The community experienced an economic boom, beginning in 1940, when Bowater began to harvest wood for its Corner Brook pulp and paper mill. The company constructed houses near the mouth of the Torrent River. Today this site remains the location of Hawkes Bay.

The economic boom created by Bowater continued until operations were ended in 1958. Devastated by the closure, people banded together to organize a logging venture for supplying pulp to the Corner Brook mill. Additional employment was also created in the forest industry by the construction of a sawmill by Lundrigan’s Ltd.

Today, the forestry still remains a major source of employment for the residents of Hawkes Bay.