Newfoundland And Labrador Route 390
Route 390, also known as Springdale Road, is a highway in the central portion of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is a very short route, running for only , with its only community, Springdale, as its terminus. Its branch routes, Route 391 (Harry's Harbour Road) and Route 392 (Beachside Road), run for a much longer distance. Route description Route 390 begins in a rural area at an intersection with Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and it heads northeast to cross Indian Brook and have an intersection with Route 391 (Harry's Harbour Road). Springdale Airport can be accessed from the highways southern terminus by traveling 1 kilometre east on Route 1. The highway heads northeast through wooded areas for a few kilometres, paralleling the Indian Brook, to enter the Springdale town limits and have an intersection with Route 392 (Beachside Road). Route 390 passes through some business districts and neighbourhoods, where it passes by George ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Government Of Newfoundland And Labrador
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador refers to the provincial government of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was established by the Newfoundland Act and its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867. Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador This arrangement began with the 1949 Newfoundland Act, and continued an unbroken line of monarchical government extending back to the late 15th century. However, though Newfoundland and Labrador has a separate government headed by the Queen, as a province, Newfoundland and Labrador is not itself a kingdom. Government House in St. John's is used both as an official residence by the Lieutenant Governor, as well as the place where the sovereign and other members of the Canadian Royal Family will reside when in Newfoundland and Labrador. The mansion is owned by the sovereign in his capacity as King in Right of Newfoundland and Labrador, and not as a private individual; the house and other Crow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Springdale, Newfoundland And Labrador
Springdale is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which had a population of 2,965 people in 2021, up from 2,764 in the Canada 2006 Census. The community is located on the Northwestern shores of Hall's Bay in Central Newfoundland, near the mouth of Indian River. One of the largest towns in north central Newfoundland, the town hosts the Springdale Braves (male) and the Springdale Bravettes (female) hockey teams. They also host the Springdale Bluefins swim team. The town has a small harbour, a hospital, and many recreational facilities, including a hockey rink, curling club, skatepark, tennis courts, a soccer pitch and softball field. Springdale is known as the "hub" of Green Bay, and provides services to a number of communities in the Green Bay North and Green Bay South areas. The town boasts a number of chain restaurants, including Mary Brown's, Subway and Tim Hortons, in addition to locally owned ventures such as Bojo's Restaurant. The current mayor of Springdale is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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King's Point, Newfoundland And Labrador
King's Point is a town on the north shore of the southwest arm of Green Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. King's Point is by road ( Route 391) from Springdale, and from the Trans-Canada Highway ( Route 1). History The earliest inhabitants of King's Point were the Maritime Archaic Indians and later the Beothuk Indians. Before the 1860s the area was a source of timber for French fishermen and naval vessels occupying the "French Shore". In the 1860s the first known European settler, James King, established fishing premises and a dwelling on the Point. This is how the community got its name. His dwelling was destroyed by high tides shortly after and abandoned by King. As early as 1870, King's Point has had a telegraph office. In 1880, it became a repeater station on a line running from the Newfoundland Railway line to Tilt Cove and Bett's Cove. Michael Smart became its first operator. In the early 1900s, fishing and farming were the economic mainstay. A herring canni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beachside, Newfoundland And Labrador
Beachside is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Notre Dame Bay. The town had a population of 97 in the Canada 2021 Census, down from 150 in 2011. Consisting in the past primarily of fishermen and miners, today it mainly consists of small families and most of the men go away for work. It is very scenic and provides a variety for any geographer. The community of Beachside, once known as Brookside and Wild Bight, was settled in the 19th century, when the mine opened in Little Bay. Location Beachside (Wild Bight) is located on the north side of Little Bay. The community is placed on the west side of the cove at the Bight's bottom, where there is a broad, rocky beach. Often one can gaze out over Backcove Hill and see huge masses of ice, in many spectacular shapes, floating across the bay. This area is lush, colorful and beautiful in summer when the flowers are in bloom and the sea is aquamarine, calm and serene. History Beachside was used as a summe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newfoundland (Island)
Newfoundland (, ; french: link=no, Terre-Neuve, ; ) is a large island off the east coast of the North American mainland and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has 29 percent of the province's land area. The island is separated from the Labrador Peninsula by the Strait of Belle Isle and from Cape Breton Island by the Cabot Strait. It blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary. Newfoundland's nearest neighbour is the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. With an area of , Newfoundland is the world's 16th-largest island, Canada's fourth-largest island, and the largest Canadian island outside the North. The provincial capital, St. John's, is located on the southeastern coast of the island; Cape Spear, just south of the capital, is the easternmost point of North America, excluding Greenland. It is common to consider all directly neighbouring i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newfoundland And Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2021, the population of Newfoundland and Labrador was estimated to be 521,758. The island of Newfoundland (and its smaller neighbouring islands) is home to around 94 per cent of the province's population, with more than half residing in the Avalon Peninsula. Labrador borders the province of Quebec, and the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies about 20 km west of the Burin Peninsula. According to the 2016 census, 97.0 per cent of residents reported English as their native language, making Newfoundland and Labrador Canada's most linguistically homogeneous province. A majority of the population is descended from English and Irish s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newfoundland And Labrador Route 391
Route 391, also known as Harry's Harbour Road, is a north–south highway on the northern coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It connects the towns of Harry's Harbour and King's Point with Springdale and the Trans-Canada Highway ( Route 1), via Route 390. Route description Route 391 begins at an intersection with Route 390 (Springdale Road) west of Springdale, just shy of its intersection with Route 1. It winds its way northward through rural, wooded, hilly terrain for several kilometres to pass through King's Point, where it has an intersection with a local road leading to downtown and Rattling Brook. The highway now begins following the coastline as it passes through the town of Jackson's Cove-Langdon's Cove-Silverdale Jackson's or Jacksons may refer to: * Jackson's House, student-body subdivision at Canadian secondary school Upper Canada College * Jackson's (restaurant), in Perth, Western Australia * Jacksons Stores, a British conv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newfoundland And Labrador Route 392
Route 392, also known as Beachside Road, is a north–south highway on the northern coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region .... It connects the town of Beachside, along with some other communities, with the town of Springdale and Route 390 (Springdale Road). Route description Route 392 begins on the western side of Springdale at an intersection with Route 390 and it heads northeast to leave town and pass through rural hilly terrain for several kilometres, where it passes by a lake before going through St. Patrick's. The highway now begins to follow the coastline as it passes through Coffee Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Coffee Cove and Beachside, where the road turns to gravel for the rest of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Newfoundland And Labrador Route 1
Route 1 is a highway in the Canada province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is the easternmost stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway. Route 1 is the primary east–west road on the island of Newfoundland. The eastern terminus of Route 1 is St. John's. From there, the highway crosses the island to Channel-Port aux Basques, its western terminus. From there, the Trans-Canada Highway is carried across the Cabot Strait by ferry to North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Route description The following description details the highway from its eastern terminus to its western terminus. Route 1's official eastern terminus is at the interchange with Logy Bay Road in the northeastern part of the city. The highway begins as a freeway, proceeding west on the Outer Ring Road. Route 1 maintains the name Outer Ring Road, intersecting with St. John's roads such as Aberdeen Avenue, Portugal Cove Road, Torbay Road, Allandale Road, Thorburn Road, Topsail Road and Kenmount Road until the interchange wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway ( French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast. The main route spans across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces. While by definition the Trans-Canada Highway is a highway ''system'' that has several parallel routes throughout most of the country, the term "Trans-Canada Highway" often refers to the main route that consists of Highway 1 (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), Highways 17 and 417 (Ontario), Autoroutes 40, 20 and 85 (Quebec), Highway 2 (New Brunswick), Highways 104 and 105 (Nova Scotia) and Highway 1 (Newfoundland). This ma ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Indian Brook (Newfoundland And Labrador)
Indian Brook may refer to: * Indian Brook, Victoria, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island * Indian Brook Band, a First Nations government of Mi'kmaq people ** Indian Brook 14 Indian Brook 14 is a Mi'kmaq reserve located in Hants County, Nova Scotia. In the 2016 Census, the reserve has 1,089 residents. It is administratively part of the Sipekneꞌkatik First Nation. History Father Louis-Pierre Thury sought to ga ..., Shubenacadie First Nation, Nova Scotia, an Indian Reserve for Mi'kmaq people * Indian Brook Reservoir, Essex, Vermont, a drinking water impoundment reservoir ** Indian Brook Town Conservation Area, a natural preserve to secure the Indian Brook Reservoir ** Indian Brook Valley, a valley flooded to create the Indian Brook Reservoir ** Indian Brook, a brook dammed to create the Indian Brook Reservoir * Indian Brook Road Historic District, Garrison, New York See also * * * Indian (other) * Brook (other) * Indian Creek (other) * India ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |