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History Museum Attractions In Newfoundland and Labrador

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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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History Museum Attractions In Newfoundland and Labrador

  • 2. Durrell Museum Twillingate
    Durrell Museum is a museum located in the town of Durrell, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It features several historical exhibits. The museum is located on Museum Road, off Durrell Street in Durrell.
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  • 4. Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre Fogo Island
    Fogo Island is the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, northwest of Musgrave Harbour across Hamilton Sound, just east of the Change Islands. The island is about 25 km long and 14 km wide. The total area is 237.71 km2 . The island had a population of 2,706 people in the 2006 census, 2,395 in the 2011 census, and 2,244 in the 2016 census.Though migratory French fishermen visited Fogo Island from the early 16th century until 1718, the first permanent settlement of the island took place in the 18th century. Fogo Harbour and Tilting Harbour were the first settlements on the island. The English and Irish descendants of the first inhabitants retained traces of their Elizabethan English and Old Irish dialects which ...
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  • 5. Bonavista Museum Bonavista
    Bonavista is a town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Unlike many Newfoundland coastal settlements, Bonavista was built on an open plain, not in a steep cove, and thus had room to expand to its current area of 31.5 square kilometres.
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  • 6. Bay de Verde Heritage Premises Bay De Verde
    Division No. 1, Subdivision G is an unorganized subdivision on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division 1 and contains the unincorporated communities of Baccalieu Island, Besom Cove, Bradley's Cove, Burnt Point, Caplin Cove, Daniel's Cove, Grates Cove, Gull Island, Job's Cove, Kingston, Long Beach, Lower Island Cove, Low Point, Northern Bay, Ochre Pit Cove, Red Head Cove, Riverhead, Smooth Cove and Western Bay.
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  • 9. Banting Memorial Interpretation Centre Musgrave Harbour
    Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr. Charles Best. As of November 2016, Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine. In 1923 the Government of Canada granted Banting a lifetime annuity to continue his work. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V.
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  • 11. St. George's Heritage Church Museum Brigus
    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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  • 12. Marystown Heritage Museum Marystown
    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 ser...
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  • 13. North Atlantic Aviation Museum Gander
    The North Atlantic Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located in the town of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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  • 14. Grenfell Historic Properties St Anthony
    Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland.
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  • 15. Grenfell House Museum St Anthony
    Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland.
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