Come By Chance is a town on the isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division 1 on Placentia Bay. Located in this town is Newfoundland's only oil refinery, the Come By Chance Refinery operated by North Atlantic Refining, which has a capacity of 130000 oilbbl/d. The associated port was Canada's fifth largest port by cargo tonnage loaded and unloaded in 2011. It handled 27.4 million metric tonnes, of which 23.7 million tonnes was crude petroleum.

History

The town's name is believed to be the result of explorers coming upon a Beothuk path by chance, and naming the location after the unexpected discovery. Come By Chance was chosen as the location for a Canadian cottage hospital in 1936. In February 2018, a group of oil refinery workers split a Canadian lottery winning of $60,000,000.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Come By Chance had a population of 208 living in 90 of its 108 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 228. With a land area of 39.55 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable people