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Businesswoman. Gudrid Ida " Gudie " Hutchings[3] PC MP (born September 1, 1959) is a Canadian politician serves as Minister of Rural Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. A member of the Liberal Party, Hutchings has represented Long Range Mountains in the House of Commons since the 2015 ...
Cod fishing on the Newfoundland Banks. Cod fishing in Newfoundland was carried out at a subsistence level for centuries, but large scale fishing began shortly after the European arrival in the North American continent in 1492, with the waters being found to be preternaturally plentiful, and ended after intense overfishing with the collapse of the fisheries in 1992.
Burgoyne's Cove. Burgoyne's Cove is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Burgoyne's Cove is located on the east coast of Newfoundland, approximately 224 kilometres from the capital city of St. John's. It is located in Smith Sound within Trinity Bay, north of Random Island.
L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. 'Meadows Cove') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony. With carbon dating estimates between ...
Rose Blanche-Harbour Le Cou (Town), [2][3] Rose Blanche Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence. This community is located in a barren area on the east side of a Rose Blanche bay. In this bay there are 2 harbours that were mainly used to provide shelter for fishing vessels. Scenery includes the rugged granite coastline, and the white and rocky cliffs of ...
Elliston is an incorporated fishing settlement situated on the Bonavista Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada. Incorporated in 1965, the town of Elliston was once called Bird Island Cove and it is composed of a number of communities, North Side, Noder Cover, Elliston Centre, Elliston Point, Porter's Point, Sandy Cove, The Neck and Maberly.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove had a population of 2,364 living in 887 of its 940 total private dwellings, a change of 6.4% from its 2016 population of 2,221. With a land area of 16.99 km 2 (6.56 sq mi), it had a population density of 139.1/km 2 (360.4/sq mi) in 2021.
Lee Wulff was born on February 10, 1905, in Valdez, District of Alaska, to parents Charles and Lilly Wulff of Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, respectively. Charles Wulff left Brooklyn around 1900 to seek gold in Alaska but soon became dependent on other work and settled in Valdez. In Valdez, Lee's father was a deputy sheriff and newspaper ...