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Marystown Heritage Museum

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Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Marystown Heritage Museum
Phone:
+1 709-279-2463

Address:
283 Ville Marie Dr, Marystown, NL A0E 2M0, Canada

Not to be confused with Marytown; see Marytown, Wisconsin or Marytown, West Virginia. Marystown is a town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with a population of 5,506 as of 2011. Situated 306 km from the province's capital, St. John's, it is on the Burin Peninsula. Until the early 1990s, its economy was largely based on shipbuilding, and it is due in part to this that the town experienced a population increase of 295% in just over a decade. The town was also dependent on the fish plant for employment. Though the shipyard still holds a presence in the town, residents have had to look elsewhere for economic subsistence in the last decade or so. The closure of the fish plants in Newfoundland has also had its hand in the decline in economic subsistence. Mortier Bay also served a strategic role during the war, and was the site selected to evacuate the Royal Family and regroup the British Navy in the event of German invasion of Britain.
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