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Joseph Swett Jr. (1689?-1745) and Robert Hooper Jr. (1709-1790) were merchants of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and partners in the fish export trade during the 1740s. Swett was one of the first in that town to engage directly in export, and Hooper, his son-in-law, eventually gained such dominance in the fishery that he became popularly known as "King" Hooper. Their firm was almost certainly the largest trading concern in town and had dealings in many major centers around North America.

Sts. Peter and Paul Parish was initially established in 1815 with its seat located in the community of King's Cove, Blackhead Bay, Bonavista Bay. The majority of settlers arrived in the early nineteenth century after the St. John's merchant James MacBaine had established a major fishing station in King's Cove. The first resident priest was Reverend James Sinnott who was tenured between 1815 and 1832.

The parish boundaries of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish have altered several times in the nineteenth century. Parish records indicate that the parish existed prior to 1815, extending from Fortune Harbour to Heart's Content, making Sts. Peter and Paul Parish the earliest known Catholic parish north of Harbour Grace. In 1872 the parish boundaries reached from Gambo, Bonavista Bay, in the north to Heart's Ease, Trinity Bay, in the south. During the ministry of Reverend Thomas Lynch (1891-1905) the parish included Blackhead Bay and Plate Cove West. In 1966 the boundaries were reduced as Plate Cove East and Plate Cove West became a separate parish.

Schools formed an integral component of Sts. Peter and Paul's parochial organization. Several schools were built during the residency of Reverend Matthew Scanlan (1855-71). Under the supervision of William Veitch (1875-1891) new schools were constructed in every settlement of the parish. School renovations and building continued under Reverend Thomas Lynch and Reverend John Scully in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the mid 20th century a new central high school was built under the supervision of Reverend Frederick Terry.

Pastors that have served Sts. Peter and Paul Parish since Reverend James Sinnott's tenure include: Nicholas Devereaux (1832-1845); Thomas Waldron (1845-54); William Forrestal (1854-?); Dean Cleary (?-1855); Matthew Scanlan (1855-71); John Walsh (1871); William Veitch (1872-73); Michael Hanley (1873-75); William Veitch (1875-91); Thomas Lynch (1891-1905); John Scully (1905-26); William Murphy (1926-40); William J. Williams (1940-56); Frederick Terry (1956-66); James Beresford (1966-74); David Heale (1975-78); Gregory Pumphery (1978-81); Lawrence George (1981-86); M. Walsh (1986-87); Michael Hynes (1987-93); William Houlahan (1993-97); Brian Colbert (1997- ).

Captain Harry (Henry W.) Stone (1914- ), mariner, marine inspector, and harbour master, was born at Monroe, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in 1914. He married Ethel Eileen Hewitt, Halifax, Nova Scotia. They have two children.

Stone went to sea at the age of 14, initially employed as a deck hand on a schooner. He commanded two home trading vessels before earning his mate's coastwise certificate. Stone took his master's home trade certificate in order to join the navy in 1941, and worked with the Atlantic Convoy as head officer on a fleetsweeper. Following 1943, he was stationed overseas, on a minesweeper in the English Channel and the Irish Sea.

After the war, Stone received his first mate's foreign going certificate and made frequent voyages to the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic. In 1957 he accepted employment with the federal Department of Transport in St. John's as a tackle inspector on cargo ships. In 1960 he was appointed St. John's harbour master, a position he retained until his retirement in 1979.

Marjorie Stoker (1914-1989) was born in West Bromwich, England, the eldest child of Harry and Annie Cutler. She married John Teasdale Stoker (1911-1975) in 1937 and moved with him to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1957, where he became head of the Department of Modern Languages at Memorial University. They had two children, Richard (1946-) and Sue Payne.

Stoker received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Manchester University in 1936, a teacher's certificate from Aberdeen University in 1954, a Teachers' Parchment from the Scottish Education Department in 1956 and a Bachelor of Education degree from Memorial University in 1966. She was a classroom teacher and substitute teacher in Newfoundland for twelve years and was the oral French specialist at the school board level for several years. She worked extensively with the academic upgrading program at the Waterford Hospital on Waterford Bridge Road and volunteer taught at the Children's Home on Water Street from 1971 until shortly before her death. She participated in several committees pertaining to her professional life as a classroom teacher and French specialist and was a founding member and Secretary of the St. John's Folk Arts Council. She was active in various women's and human rights groups: Status of Women Committee, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, National Council of Women, Exon House Auxiliary, Defenders of Signal Hill Committee. During the 1960s she undertook research among the Mi'kmaq in Southern and Western Newfoundland.

John Stewart (ca. 1758-1834), landowner and civil servant, was born in Kintyre, Scotland circa 1758. He married three times; his second wife was Mary Ann James, whom he married in St. John's on 29 May 1817. He died on his Prince Edward Island estate on 22 June 1834.

Stewart moved to Prince Edward Island in 1775 when his father, Peter Stewart, was appointed Chief Justice. Stewart seems to have had some troubles with the Island's governors whose policies he opposed because they were detrimental to his family's fortunes. He was elected to the Prince Edward Island legislature on a number of occasions and served several terms as the Speaker. He was the author of An Account of Prince Edward Island (1806).

Stewart lived in St. John's, Newfoundland between 1804 and 1817, serving as Deputy Paymaster General for the British garrison.

John Stevens (1702-1779) was a merchant and landowner in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the late colonial period. He kept a number of schooners in the bank fishery and manned them with local men, who provisioned themselves and their families at his store. Stevens also owned a number of houses in Gloucester that he rented to fishermen and other customers.

Stephen Loring is an Archaeologist with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. He has conducted fieldwork research in, and written extensively on archaeology in Labrador, among other regions.

Mary Starbuck and her descendants constituted one of the more important merchant families on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The bulk of their business was in the whaling industry, although the Starbucks were also farmers and general traders.