Pasadena

Pasadena is located 25 km southwest of Deer Lake. The town as we know it today is actually the result of three communities joining together. The three communities – Pasadena, South Brook and Midland – became a single community in 1986.

South Brook was the first community in the area, and was mainly used as a railway stop. A woods operation attracted people to this area and logging was the main industry.

Pasadena was the second community. Leonard Earle, the bought land between South Brook and Pynn’s Brook. He named the area Pasadena because of its literal translation (a Spanish word meaning “crown of the valley”), and also because his wife was a former resident of Pasadena, California.

Midland is where a government land settlement began. Most of its settlers came from areas of the province deeply affected by the depression. In the late 1990’s the Trans Canada Highway, which used to divide the town was rebuilt on its outskirts.

The joining of all three resulted in what is now known as the Town of Pasadena (Crown of the Valley).