Pinware is a fishing village in Southern Labrador. Some of the better timber stands in the region are located along the Pinware River, which is also known for salmon. The first people in Pinware were Palaeo-Indians, roughly nine thousand years ago.

Pinware is one of the earliest archeological sites in the Province. The first year round settlers were probably the family of an Irishman, John O'Dell in the late 1700's. Some of the first houses are said to have been built from lumber salvaged from a shipwreck. The ship's bell was placed in Pinware's first Roman Catholic Church, build in the early 1800s and one of the first churches on the Labrador Coast.