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Since the Dominion of Newfoundland was separate from Canada, it had the right to adopt its own time zone when time zones were first created. While the entire province lies west of the standard meridian for a half-hour time zone, 52.5 degrees west longitude, this is also the near exact meridian of St. John's, the province's capital and largest city.
The St. John's City Hall, on New Gower Street, has housed municipal offices and Council Chambers since being officially opened in 1970. [138] [175] St. John's served as the capital city of the Colony of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Newfoundland before Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province in 1949. [176]
City of licence Analog channel Digital channel Virtual channel Callsign Network Notes Happy Valley-Goose Bay: 12 CHTG-TV: APTN: relay of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network ...
Places in Pacific Time that have not observed DST since the database cut-off date (1970) 6446092 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5546−12014 America/Dawson_Creek MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John) −07:00: −07:00: Places in Mountain Time that stopped using DST in 1973 6483979 on OpenStreetMap: CA +5848−12242 America/Fort_Nelson MST - BC (Ft Nelson ...
Call sign Frequency City of licence Owner Network / Branding Format CFOZ-FM: 100.3 FM: Argentia: Newfoundland Broadcasting: OZ FM: CHR/classic Rock: CKIM: 1240 AM: Baie Verte
This time zone was also known as the Loenen time or Gorinchem time, as this was the exact time in both Loenen and Gorinchem. At noon in Amsterdam, it was 11:40 in London and 12:40 in Berlin. The shift to the current Central European Time zone took place on 16 May 1940. The German occupiers ordered the clock to be moved an hour and forty minutes ...
1919 – St. John's was the starting point for the first non-stop transatlantic aircraft flight, by Alcock and Brown in a modified Vickers Vimy IV bomber, in June 1919, departing from Lester's Field in St. John's and ending in a bog near Clifden, Connemara, Ireland. [6] 1924 – National War Memorial (Newfoundland) unveiled on July 1.
CJON-DT (channel 21), branded on-air as NTV (short for Newfoundland Television), is an independent television station in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, owned by Newfoundland Broadcasting Company Ltd. The station's studios are located on Logy Bay Road in St. John's, and its transmitter is located in the city's Shea Heights section.