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  Newfoundland and Labrador - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Newfoundland and Labrador (French, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradóir, Latin: Terra Nova) is a province of Canada, the tenth to join Confederation.
Newfoundland received a colonial assembly in 1832, which was and still is referred to as the House of Assembly, after a fight led by reformers William Carson, Patrick Morris and John Kent.
The Protestants of Newfoundland outnumbered the Catholics at a ratio of 2:1.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Newfoundland_and_Labrador   (2714 words)

  
 Churchill Falls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Churchill Falls are waterfalls, 245 ft (75 m) high, on the Churchill River in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
The Churchill Falls power station has the second largest hydroelectric-generating capacity in North America (5,248 MW installed, expandable to about 6,300 MW) and is also the second largest underground power station in the world, after the Robert-Bourassa generating station in northern Quebec.
Churchill Falls was, at the time of its construction, the largest underground power station in the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Churchill_Falls   (1617 words)

  
 Newfoundland, Canada
Labrador, the peninsula called by Jacques Cartier "the land that God gave Cain", is bordered on the west and south by the Province of Québec and is 1046 km (650 mi.) north to south and 724 km (450 mi.) east to west.
Newfoundland's island climate is characterised by the fogs which occur all year round, caused in summer by the cold air from the Labrador current meeting the warmer air from the landmass, with the process reversed in winter.
Newfoundland is unusual for Canada in having a very homogenous population: 99 per cent of the "Newfies" are English-speaking and more than 95 per cent were born on the island.
www.planetware.com /canada/newfoundland-cdn-nf-nf.htm   (1489 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The Labradorian community of Churchill Falls seems to exist for one purpose: to maintain a hydroelectric plant in the middle of nowhere, which is, to say, the middle of Labrador.
Churchill Falls has a population of about 700, which is almost exactly what it takes to maintain a hydroelectric plant in the middle of nowhere.
One, of course, is the Churchill Falls Inn.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A442865   (666 words)

  
 Newfoundland and Labrador - ExampleProblems.com
Newfoundland and Labrador (French, Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradóir, Latin: Terra Nova) is the tenth and, to date, most recent province to join the Canadian confederation.
Newfoundland's long-standing Labrador boundary dispute with Canada was resolved to the satisfaction of Newfoundland and Canada (but not Quebec, the province that bordered Labrador) with the ruling, on April 1, 1927 by the Imperial Privy Council.
Its report, released in 1933, assessed Newfoundland's political culture as intrinsically corrupt and its economic prospects bleak, and advocated the abolition of responsible government on the island, to be replaced by a Commission of the British Government.
www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Newfoundland_and_Labrador   (2652 words)

  
 Labrador travel guide - Wikitravel
Labrador is 'The Big Land'--the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Labrador is home to the largest herds of Caribou in the world, and is teeming with the kind of abundant wildlife often associated with the northern portion of Canada.
In many ways, the relationship between Labrador and its historical 'parent,' Newfoundland, has been a microcosm of the relationship between the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the government of Canada--Labrador often feels ignored and exploited by the island government in Newfoundland.
wikitravel.org /en/Labrador   (621 words)

  
 Churchill Falls -  History
The Twin Falls hydro plant on the Unknown River, a tributary of the Churchill River, was constructed in the early 1960's.
Utilizing this water at the Churchill Falls plant enabled approximately three times as much electricity to be produced from the same volume of water In July, 1974 the Twin Falls plant was closed and the water diverted into the Smallwood Reservoir.
At this point first commercial deliveries of Churchill Falls power were scheduled for spring, 1972 and by the end of 1971, installation of the first two of eleven units was to be completed.
www.ewh.ieee.org /reg/7/millennium/churchill/cf_history.html   (1308 words)

  
 Labrador - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Labrador, vast peninsular region of eastern Canada, lying between Hudson Bay on the west and the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and incorporating the...
Labrador Retriever, breed of sporting dog, trained to discover and fetch killed or wounded game, principally aquatic birds or pheasants.
Churchill Falls, cataract of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 75 m (245 ft) high, on the Churchill River in western Labrador.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Labrador.html   (156 words)

  
 Churchill Falls, Labrador - A Scoff an' Scuff
In August, 1949, Joseph R. Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland, had the opportunity to see Grand Falls (Churchill Falls) for the first time and it became his obsession to turn the roaring falls into a hydroelectric plant.
By the mid 1950s Brinco had determined that the Churchill Falls hydroelectric plant was feasible and practical.
Churchill Falls went into full-time production on December 6, 1971, with the delivery of the first consistent power to Hydro-Québec.
www.ascoffanscuff.com /lab/cf/cfstart.html   (180 words)

  
 Newfoundland Books The Story of Labrador - Bill Rompkey
The Story of Labrador is the story of the Innu caribou hunters, of the Inuit people of the seal, of French fishermen and Basque whalers, of traders, of absentee governors, of settlers, and of the fight for life in a harshly beautiful land.
It is the story of great Canadian construction projects: the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, the rich iron ore operations at Labrador City and Wabush, and, in its time the largest hydro project in the world, Churchill Falls.
Above all, The Story of Labrador is the story of Newfoundland and Labrador, two uneasy stepsisters, each with its own strong identity, trying to share a common house.
www.tidespoint.com /books/story_labrador.shtml   (402 words)

  
 h2g2 : Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada : A428212
Labrador is loosely inhabited, from the Strait of Belle Isle in the south to Nain in the north.
Labrador City and Wabush, and Churchill Falls were entirely built and constructed from 1941.
Labrador is largely a political colony of Newfoundland, and an economic colony of Quebec which established the mining and hydroelectric industries.
www.eilertech.com /hhgg/labrador.htm   (980 words)

  
 Churchill Falls — FactMonster.com
Churchill Falls, spectacular waterfalls of the upper Churchill River, 245 ft (75 m) high, SW Labrador, N.L., Canada; known as Grand Falls until renamed (1965) in honor of Sir Winston Churchill.
Churchill Falls has one of the largest hydroelectricity-generating capacities (5,225,000 kW) in the world.
Newfoundland and Labrador, province, Canada: Economy and Higher Education - Economy and Higher Education Labrador's cold climate and lack of transportation facilities have...
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0812200.html   (257 words)

  
 Churchill Falls - The Largest Underground Powerhouse In The World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This site describes the main features of the Churchill Falls hydro development, the infrastructure required to support it in the remoteness of the central Labrador wilderness, and the principal aspects of its operation.
Churchill Falls is located in the Labrador region of the province of Newfoundland, Canada
In 1947, a preliminary survey of the falls and river confirmed the huge hydro-electric potential of the area.
www.ewh.ieee.org /reg/7/millennium/churchill/cf_home.html   (300 words)

  
 Churchill (river Newfoundland Canada) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Churchill (river, Newfoundland, Canada), river of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 856 km (532 mi) long.
Churchill (river, central Canada), river of central Canada, 1,609 km (1,000 mi) long.
The longest river is the Churchill in Labrador; with its tributaries it drains much of the Labrador Plateau.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Churchill_(river_Newfoundland_Canada).html   (115 words)

  
 Labrador, Part 2: Trans Labrador Highway
The entrance to the Trans Labrador Highway in Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a strange sight: at a bend on the main street, a narrow gravel road dives abruptly into the Labrador wilderness, looking more like a minor logging road than a highway.
The Churchill River was diverted underground here (leaving the natural Churchill Falls nearly bone dry) to create the largest hydroelectric facility in North America, supplying power primarily to the northeastern United States.
The Trans Labrador Highway ends at the iron mining towns of Labrador City and Wabush, near the Quebec border, with a combined population of around 10,000.
www.amxfiles.com /stoneji/97trip/tlh.htm   (970 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Trans-Labrador Highway, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The highway runs from Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the east, to Churchill Falls in the centre, to Labrador City/Wabush and the Quebec border in the west.
The highway is unpaved and is mainly gravel- or dirt-covered, for all but about 10km between Labrador City and the Quebec border, and 0.5km near Churchill Falls.
The eastern segment of the highway is the subject of perpetual travel advice by the government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A442847b   (810 words)

  
 N.E.J.V.-LABRADOR
Newfoundland's identity was strongly associated with feelings of pride in the Empire, as indicated by its lack of a national flag on land.
Newfoundland was, by 1974, being pressured by its legendary, larger-than-life premier, Joey Smallwood, to adopt the Union Flag as its Provincial flag, which it did.
Labrador is represented in Newfoundland's House of Assembly by several districts.
www.midcoast.com /~martucci/neva/labrador.html   (1982 words)

  
 Premier's address on Churchill Falls to the Empire Club, Toronto
Newfoundland and Labrador has received benefits that averaged $23 million a year.
The Churchill Falls agreement must be re-negotiated because it has yielded unconscionably large benefits for Quebec and unconscionably small benefits for Newfoundland and Labrador.
That is because the major benefits to Newfoundland and Labrador are dividends from CF(L)Co. But, beginning in 2002, CF(L)Co will have to forego the payment of dividends in some years and pay reduced dividends in most others.
www.releases.gov.nl.ca /releases/1996/exec/1119n06.htm   (2025 words)

  
 A Natural Resource of Labrador - Churchill Falls - A Scoff an' Scuff
Grand Falls was later named Hamilton Falls and finally named Churchill Falls in honor of former British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
Grand Coulee in the United States, Krasnoyarsk in the Soviet Union and Churchill Falls in Labrador are three of the very few rivers that combine both of these rare natural phenomena.
In the case of Churchill, nature provided the raw materials, an easily-stored large volume of water, and a large enough drop to turn the turbines; however, man and money were required to turn the raw materials into a hydroelectric production plant.
www.ascoffanscuff.com /lab/cf/cf02.html   (316 words)

  
 Community Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The power from this project was used during the construction of the power plant at Churchill Falls and by the Iron Ore Company of
It was determined that a vast reservoir, covering 69 000 square kilometers, could be created and contained by low earth dykes, due to the natural features of the surrounding plateau.
Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation Limited became a subsidiary of the
labrador.crrstv.net /newlab/Churchill_Falls.htm   (821 words)

  
 Premier's address to Montreal Rotary Subject: Churchill Falls
The fundamental inequity of the Churchill Falls agreement remains.
Re-negotiation of the Churchill Falls agreement is the key, as well, to unlocking the further riches of the Churchill River.
The benefits to Newfoundland and Labrador would also include a secure and stable source of power to Labrador and to the island portion of the province.
www.releases.gov.nl.ca /releases/1996/exec/1015n06.htm   (2550 words)

  
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The interior of Newfoundland is a combination of forest, heath, lakes and rivers spread over a terrain that ranges from mountainous in the west to rolling hills in the centre and east.
Labrador is also mountainous in the west, although its rivers are larger and wilder.
The province of Newfoundland and Labrador consists of the Island of Newfoundland and the mainland plateau region of Labrador which borders the province of Québec.
www.cosmostourama.co.uk /countryinfo.php?countryid=nfl   (2711 words)

  
 h2g2 : The Trans-Labrador Highway, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada : A442847
Labrador City and Churchill Falls is about 220km long, gravel-covered, and fairly easy to drive.
Labrador City to Churchill Falls had to put their cars on an auto-train, which runs northward to the hamlet of Esker.
Labrador City to Churchill Falls in just over two hours, and Churchill Falls to Happy Valley-Goose Bay in five-and-a-half hours.
www.eilertech.com /hhgg/translabrador.htm   (702 words)

  
 Newfoundland and Labrador Direction on Lower Churchill
Newfoundland and Labrador would be foolhardy to consider wheeling Lower Churchill power across Quebec in future.
The reality of an independent Quebec is also a reality where Newfoundland and Labrador is essentially cut off from Canada geographically and is reliant on the whims and wishes of a foreign power to market its resources.
As a side note, it might also be in Newfoundland and Labrador’s best interest to ensure that the ever changing Labrador border, which inexplicably continues to move further and further east on Quebec tourist maps, isn’t taken too seriously by anyone down the road, but I digress.
www.canadafreepress.com /2006/higgins072506.htm   (794 words)

  
 Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is where all of the youth between the ages of 13 and 19 in Churchill Falls go to hang out.
This is what the falls once looked like before most of the water was diverted and held back.
This is the Churchill Falls when the water is held back by the dykes.
www.k12.nf.ca /eglambert/town.htm   (884 words)

  
 St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland was originally settled by Irish fishermen, and consequently English is spoken with a lilting Irish or Scottish accent, in addition to the more familiar Canadian habits of speech (e.g., "aboot).
The park interpreters we encountered both in Newfoundland and in Labrador were extremely well-informed and helpful during the entire trip.
Many of the young people of Newfoundland and Labrador are taking advantage of opportunities to get a college education, which then open up the possibilities for employment elsewhere in other provinces.
www.innovativewords.com /trips/newfoundland/labrador.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador
The town of Churchill Falls is located approximately 245 kilometres east of Labrador City, population 650, possibly the last known company town in Atlantic Canada.
The Churchill Falls Hydro Electrical development is the largest in Canada and the ninth largest in the world.
The Churchill River was rechanneled and diverted through the power complex which was constructed underground.
www.explorenewfoundlandandlabrador.com /communities/churchill-falls.htm   (178 words)

  
 Election 2006
Born and raised in Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Stephen is the youngest of 6 children.
He moved back to the province he loves and has had much success over the last 10 years performing in just about every corner of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the coming election, Stephen decided to take leadership and run as a candidate for the Green Party to ensure as many Newfoundland and Labradorians hear a new voice, a voice of reason, a voice of the future.
www.ctv.ca /mini/election2006/candidates/10006_GRN.html   (332 words)

  
 Newfoundland Trans-Canada Highway Route
You arrive in Newfoundland at the ferry landing at Port Aux Basques, off the a ferry from North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
The highway passes Springdale, Grand Falls, and Bishop's Falls before heading in an easgterly direction.
John's, capital city of the island province of Newfoundland, and Canada's oldest city, is the eastern starting / ending point of the Trans-Canada Highway.
www.transcanadahighway.com /Newfoundland   (313 words)

  
 Bed and Breakfasts in Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador
Churchill Falls is a town built around a hydroelectric project.
In this area of Labrador, the huge Churchill River drops 300 metres in a 32 km stretch.
It produces 5,225 megawatts of electricity, You can arrange a tour of the facility, much of which is located in a huge man-made cavern.
www.accommodationsnewfoundland.com /Bed-Breakfasts/churchill-falls.htm   (87 words)

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