Newfoundland and Labrador

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Abbr. NL

A province of eastern Canada including the island of Newfoundland and nearby islands and the mainland area of Labrador with its adjacent islands. It was admitted as a province in 1949. England claimed Newfoundland in 1583, although the claims were disputed by France until the Treaty of Paris (1763). The province of Quebec continued to claim Labrador until 1927. St. John's is the capital and the largest city.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

(Placename) a province of E Canada, consisting of the island of Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador: usually known as Newfoundland until its official long form was adopted as the main name in 2001. Capital: St John's. Pop: 514 536 (2011 est). Area: 404 519 sq km (156 185 sq miles). Abbreviation: NL

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Newfoundland and Labrador - a Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949

Labrador - the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada

Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

Saint John's, St. John's - a port and provincial capital of Newfoundland

Translations

Neufundland und Labrador

Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

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The papers collected here examine, often in multiple and intersecting ways, the materiality, mediation, and mutability of the knowledge and stories that have helped shape Newfoundland and Labrador. The material object is the spark of Stephen Crocker's study, which takes as its starting point a family heirloom, a much-read copy of Medyett Goodridge's Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter: with an Account of Two Years' Residence on an Uninhabited Island (1838).

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"The 2016 independent oil and gas resource assessment adds to our growing knowledge about our offshore oil and gas potential--leading to more exploration work by global companies and giving us assurance that we will have a thriving oil and gas industry in Newfoundland and Labrador for many years to come," said Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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To steal a phrase from Herb Wyile and Jeannette Lynes, the last few decades have witnessed a consistent "rising tide" of literary and artistic depictions of Newfoundland and Labrador. (1) Riding this wave, of course, have been countless critical and scholarly responses to the work, a select few of which, like Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena's Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador, attempt to contemplate at once all the forms of creativity flowing through the province.

Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena, ed.: Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador

This is a homecoming of sorts for Harbin, who has just moved back to the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador from the diocese of Central Newfoundland, where she served in the parish of Gambo.

Sweet homecoming after 22 years

She is invested in the Orders of Canada, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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The provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador gets paid by Qatar for running the school.

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Now the Newfoundland and Labrador Minister for Culture has renamed the St John's Arts and Culture Centre's Basement Theatre, the venue in which she has worked for 17 years, The Barbara Barrett Theatre.

Theatre honour for ex-pat

Summary: In its annual report on Newfoundland and Labrador, Moody's Investors Service says that the Canadian province's Aa2 rating, with stable outlook, reflects the sustained improvement in its debt profile and the resulting enhancement in fiscal flexibility.

Moody's Issues Annual Report on the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador

Cadigan, Newfoundland and Labrador: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2009)