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Info about Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is Canada's most easterly province, as well as its newest, having joined Confederation in 1949. The island of Newfoundland and the larger Labrador portion on the eastern part of the Canadian mainland comprises 405,720 square kilometres, more than three times the total area of all three neighbouring Maritime provinces. Cape Spear, the easternmost point of the province and North America, is almost 3,000 km away from the nearest point in Ireland, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, but Ireland is closer to Cape Spear than is Winnipeg, 3,100 km to its west.
Newfoundland's geographic location as the closest North American portal for Europeans has made it a natural landing point for the past millennium. Viking explorers from Iceland and Greenland who visited Labrador and Newfoundland in the 10th century became the first Europeans to get a glimpse of North America. More than five centuries later, Basque, French and Portuguese fishermen were well acquainted with the rich supply of cod, halibut, mackerel and herring found at the Grand Banks, in the southeastern corner of the province.
Newfoundland's fishing industry remains an economic mainstay for the province, now home to over half a million people. However, the recent collapse of the cod fishery has led Newfoundland to pursue other initiatives based on its considerable natural resources, several of them large-scale development projects, such as the Hibernia and Terra Nova offshore oil projects. Others include tapping into the province's rich mineral deposits at Voiseys Bay and building its capital city, St. John's, into a high-tech centre as part of a campaign to solidify a technology-based economy for Newfoundland modeled after the one in Ireland - that other island not so very far away. Recently the film industry has discovered the province; an example is The Shipping News released in 2001.
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