Category: Newfoundland

Fiona is expected to travel northward this week and transform into a large and potent post-tropical storm by Saturday. Landfall is expected across eastern Nova Scotia or western Newfoundland Friday night or Saturday. Will Newfoundland be affected by Fiona? Fiona’s path of destruction through Atlantic Canada heavily damaged the fishing industry and communities along Newfoundland’s […]

Hart Island. Fiona made landfall over Hart Island, N.S., early Saturday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 148 km/h and a minimum pressure of 931 millibars, potentially becoming the deepest low-pressure system ever recorded on Canadian soil. Where did Fiona make land fall? Nova ScotiaHistoric Landfall Along Atlantic Canada: Fiona made landfall as a powerful […]

Prince Edward Island: More than $220 million. New Brunswick: More than $30 million. Quebec: More than $11 million. Newfoundland and Labrador: More than $7 million. How was Newfoundland affected by Fiona? Fiona caused widespread damage and power outages across the East Coast. Port aux Basques, which sits on the island of Newfoundland’s southwestern tip, was […]

Newfoundlands excel at water rescue and life-saving because of their muscular build, thick double coat, webbed paws and swimming skills. The Newfoundland breed is known for its size, intelligence, strength, calm disposition, and loyalty. What is the best water rescue dog? Breeds that naturally love the water (Newfoundlands, Portuguese water dogs and Labrador retrievers) are […]

Currently, over 80 percent of our electricity is generated from renewable energy resources, which will increase to 98 percent with the in-service of Muskrat Falls, and decommissioning of the Holyrood Thermal Generating Station. What percentage of energy will be renewable by 2050? In our Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022) Reference case, which reflects current laws […]

Frances Peddle. Frances Peddle, the oldest person in Newfoundland and Labrador, marked a huge occasion with family and friends in Stephenville Crossing Thursday. She turned 108. What is the oldest community in Newfoundland? Cupids, established in 1610, is the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in Canada. John Guy established the first-year round settlement at the […]

The 2021 Census population for Local Area 34: Codroy Valley was 1,325. This represents a decline of 13.4% since 2016 (1,325 in 2021, down from 1,530). Over the same period, the entire province experienced a population decrease of 1.8% since 2016 (510,550 in 2021, down from 519,715). How many communities are in Codroy Valley? This […]

Characteristic Avalon Peninsula Newfoundland and Labrador [Economic region] Data quality , Avalon Peninsula [Economic region], Newfoundland and Labrador Map Change geography Total – Age groups and average age of the population – 100% data Census data footnote 4 270,350 131,475 0 to 14 years 40,625 20,760 0 to 4 years 12,530 6,390 What is the […]

John Cabot. What did John Cabot discover? On June 24, 1497, Cabot and his crew aboard the Matthew reached North America—either Labrador, Newfoundland, or Cape Breton Island. Which explorer founded Newfoundland? John CabotItalian explorer, John Cabot, is famed for discovering Newfoundland and was instrumental in the development of the transatlantic trade between England and the […]

Eastern Newfoundland is the region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador that includes the Avalon Peninsula, which extends farther east than any part of North America except Greenland, and the Bonavista Peninsula, which was the site of the arrival of the first European colonists to North America, in Where is northeastern Newfoundland? This […]