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NLESD logo. NLSchools (formally known as Newfoundland & Labrador English School District as of 2024) is the school board overseeing all English-language primary and secondary education in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Harbour Breton was designated as a growth centre in 1965 and the government encouraged people living in isolated communities to relocate to the town. From 1965 to 1971, a total of 700 people had moved to Harbour Breton. Many residents resettled from Sagona Island, [5] Jersey Harbour, Little Bay West, Miller's Passage, Red Cove, and Grole. In ...
It is home to Fatima Academy and several businesses and government services. The community is named for the Irish St. Brigid, which reflects the community's traditional history of ties to the southeast of Ireland, the Irish language in Newfoundland, and to the Catholic Church in Canada. It was the location of St. Bride's Radar Station.
St. Alban's is a town of approximately 1,200 located in the Bay d'Espoir estuary on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. [2] St. Alban's is the largest community in Bay d'Espoir. [1] The town is 180 kilometres (110 mi) south of Grand Falls-Windsor. [3] [4]
Milltown–Head of Bay d'Espoir is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 669 in the Canada 2021 Census . In January 2017, Bay d'Espoir Academy , along with the local RCMP detachment and Milltown Town Hall/Fire Department, was set ablaze in an act of arson. [ 1 ]
The town has a small harbour, a hospital, and many recreational facilities, including a hockey rink, curling club, skatepark, tennis courts, a soccer pitch and softball field. Springdale is known as the "hub" of Green Bay, and provides services to a number of communities in the Green Bay North and Green Bay South areas. The town boasts a number ...
The town has a K-12 school called Victoria Academy [3] (as of 2022-23, there are 4 students enrolled), as well as a fire department, public library, Lion's Club, and town hall. The town is only accessible by ferry or helicopter .
Mortier Bay also served a strategic role during World War II, and was the site selected to evacuate the Royal Family and regroup the British Navy in the event of German invasion of Britain. [2] Currently fish farming and the shipyard remain important to the local economy; [ 3 ] in fact, construction of the world's largest fish hatchery , the ...