The town of Hant’s Harbour has a fully operational recreational building that houses the town office of which there are 2 full-time employees and 3 part-time employees, a newly constructed fire hall with a 20 member strong group of volunteer individuals, and a recreation committee that oversees the recreational activities for all ages.
There is one church — the Calvary Pentecostal Church.
The town also has a historical museum known as the Willow Tree Heritage. This facility holds many historical artifacts of the town and a history that depicts the early years of living in Hants Harbour. There is the Willow Tree Heritage stage built in 1905 overlooks the harbour and has been maintained to its original state, a treat for tourists. Located on Church Hill, is an old cemetery where the bodies of an 1835 shipwreck were buried. The shipwrecked was a boat known as the “Fanny”. On a stormy night in 1835, this boat ran into the rocks in Caplin Cove where all crew lost their lives.
Aunt Lydia’s Prayer is part of our history. In approximately 1860 the people were very poor and the only way to make money or to have food was if there was a exceptional fishing season in the fall. The fall of 1860 was a very difficult time, the fish were few, according to stories of the elderly, a lady named Aunt Lydia called a prayer meeting where the community prayed for fish, the next morning a fisherman, who did not believe that the prayer would work went to the fishing grounds only to find that the fish were plentiful, the prayers had been answered. In 1995, the community hosted its first Come Home Year and a replica of this event was held.
