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Specialty Museum Attractions In Newfoundland

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Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it comprises the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador to the northwest, with a combined area of 405,212 square kilometres . In 2013, the province's population was estimated at 526,702. About 92% of the province's population lives on the island of Newfoundland , of whom more than half live on the Avalon Peninsula. The province is Canada's most linguistically homogeneous, with 97.6% of residents reporting English as their mother tongue in the 2006 census. Historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French and Irish, as...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Newfoundland

  • 1. Long Point Lighthouse Twillingate
    Long Point Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse located outside Crow Head on North Twillingate Island off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The lighthouse, completed in 1876, attracts thousands of tourists each year and is historic to the town of Twillingate.
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  • 2. The Discovery Center Woody Point
    Saint Andrews is a town in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is sometimes referred to in tourism marketing by its unofficial nickname St. Andrews By-the-Sea.
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  • 3. Colony of Avalon Ferryland
    Province of Avalon was the area around the settlement of Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the 17th century, which upon the success of the colony grew to include the land held by Sir William Vaughan and all the land that lay between Ferryland and Petty Harbour.
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  • 7. Twillingate Museum & Crafts Shop Twillingate
    Twillingate Museum is a museum located in the town of Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It features several exhibits showcasing the history of the town's people and culture. One of the exhibits includes several artifacts of the Maritime Archaic people that were found in nearby Back Harbour.The museum also features a craft shop with many handmade Newfoundland items. It is located just off Main Street on the north shore of the town.
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  • 8. Trinity Historical Society Inc Trinity
    Michael Servetus , also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva, Michel Servet, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve , was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio . He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in the history of several of these fields, particularly medicine. He participated in the Protestant Reformation, and later developed a heterodox view of the Trinity and Christology. After being condemned by Cathol...
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  • 11. Railway Society of Newfoundland Historic Train Site Corner Brook
    The Railway Coastal Museum is a transportation museum located in St. John's, Newfoundland. It is located in the historic Newfoundland Railway terminal on Water Street and contains exhibits detailing the history of the Newfoundland Railway and the history of coastal water transportation in the province. The building was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988 for its role in commemorating the important role played by the Newfoundland Railway in the social, economic and political history of the province. It was also designated a Heritage Railway Station in 1990.The museum opened in 2003 on a grant from the Johnson Family Foundation. The museum is also noteworthy as Mile Zero of the Trans-Canada Trail. With the closure of the Newfoundland Railway, the terminal is no longer conne...
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  • 13. Conception Bay Museum Harbour Grace
    Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference . With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech. On October 14,...
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