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The St. John's City Hall, on New Gower Street, has housed municipal offices and Council Chambers since being officially opened in 1970. [138] [167] 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. [168]
The provincial capital is St. John's, located at the extreme eastern edge of the island, Newfoundland, on the Avalon Peninsula. About half of the province's economy is based on its abundant natural resources, notably petroleum, minerals, forestry and the fishery. [6]
Name Water body Area km² Location Remarks Allan's Island: Atlantic Ocean: Part of the town of Lamaline: Baccalieu: Conception Bay: 5: Uninhabited Balcalhoa: Notre Dame Bay
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The peninsula is home to 270,348 people, about 52% of Newfoundland's population, according to the 2016 Canadian census. The peninsula is the location of St. John's, the provincial capital and largest city. [2] It is connected to the main section of the island by the 5 km (3 mi) wide Isthmus of Avalon.
Conception Bay (CB) is a bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada.. The population (in 2011) of people living in municipalities (or unincorporated census subdivisions) located along the coast of Conception Bay was 90,490 [2] making it one of the most densely populated areas of the province.
Land of the lost: Hidden lagoon network found with living fossils similar to those from more than 3 billion years ago Taylor Nicioli, CNN December 16, 2023 at 8:53 AM
Newfoundland was long inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Dorset culture and the Beothuk, who spoke the now-extinct Beothuk language.. The island was possibly visited by the Icelandic explorer Leif Erikson in the 11th century as a rest settlement when heading farther south to the land believed to be closer to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River called "Vinland". [11]