to Carbonear completed with twice-daily service. 1905 - New Post Office built on Water St to replace one destroyed by fire the previous year. Monument erected to heroine Tryphoena Nicholl, postmistress who died in saving other people trapped inside the burning building. 1908 - United Church College is built. 1917 - Train station expanded due to increased traffic and rail line extension to Bay de Verde, on the Bay de Verde Branch Line 1932 - 100 policemen brought by train to restore order in Carbonear due to riots during the Great Depression. 1948 - Incorporated into a town with elected government. 1949 - Bond Theatre opens 1 April 1949 showing The Razor's Edge. Built partially from materials recovered from a German POW camp in nearby Victoria Village. 1957 - Larger modern post office building opens. 1961 - United Church Regional High School opens. Renamed to James Moore Regional High in 1967, then James Moore Central High in 1974. 1964 - Alfred Penney Memorial Hall (elementary school) is destroyed by fire. 1965 - Davis Elementary School opens. 1968 - The Compass newspaper starts publication. 1976 – Official opening of the new Regional Hospital takes place; the old hospital is converted to a nursing home for elderly patients. 1978 – Trinity Conception Square shopping mall is opened. 1984 - End of rail service to Carbonear. 1985 - James Moore Central High School closes; Carbonear Integrated Collegiate opens. 1997 - St. Clare's School is closed. 1998 - Princess Sheila NaGeira Theatre and the Conception Bay Regional Community Centre are opened. 1999 - Rorke east storehouse blown down by January blizzard. 2004 - St. Joseph's School closes. 2011 - Carbonear Cinemas is closed as a result of a fire after the screening of a film on October 24. 2013 - Davis Elementary School closes and Carbonear Academy opens to replace it. 2014 - The Bond Theatre building burns down. 2022 - Massive fire breaks out on 15 April, destroying two large buildings on Water Street. Mayors George W. Earle (1969 - 1973) Milton Peach (1977 - 1985) William Butt (1990s) Claude Garland (1997 - 2004) Sam Slade (2005 - 2013) George Butt (2013 - 2017) Frank Butt (2017–present) Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Carbonear had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area