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Red Rocks, Newfoundland And Labrador
Red Rocks was a Canadian National Railway station northwest of Channel-Port aux Basques Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfo .... It was closed and depopulated in September 1966. See also * List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador Ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador {{Canada-ghost-town-stub ...
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Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia across approximately of track. In the late 20th century, CN gained extensive capacity in the United States by taking over such railroads as the Illinois Central. CN is a public company with 22,600 employees, and it has a market cap of approximately CA$90 billion. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding in 1919 until being privatized in 1995. , Bill Gates is the largest single shareholder of CN stock, owning a 14.2% interest through Cascade Investment and his own Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Fr ...
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Channel-Port Aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfoundland and the western terminus of the Newfoundland and Labrador Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) in the province. The town was incorporated in 1945 and its population in the 2021 census was 3,547. Port aux Basques is the oldest of the collection of villages that make up the present-day town, which consists of Port aux Basques, Channel, Grand Bay and Mouse Island. The town is called "''Siinalk''" in the Miꞌkmaq language. History Channel was settled by fisher-folk from the Channel Islands in the early 1700s. Port aux Basques refers to the harbour that was a favoured sheltering and watering place for Basque whalers who hailed from the Basque region of the Pyrenees of France and Spain during the early 16th century. After leaving the harbo ...
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List Of Communities In Newfoundland And Labrador
This article lists unincorporated communities of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Incorporated towns and cities are incorporated municipalities and can be found on List of municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland and Labrador at Confederation in 1949 had nearly 1,450 communities. Today it has fewer than 700. A listing of abandoned communities is found at the List of ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador. __NOTOC__ A * Aaron Arm, Burgeo (Newfoundland) * Allan's Island, Lamaline (Newfoundland) * Amherst Cove (Newfoundland) * Angels Cove (Newfoundland) * Angelbrook, Glovertown (Newfoundland) * Apsey Beach (Newfoundland) * Apsey Brook (Newfoundland) * Argentia, Placentia (Newfoundland) * Arnold's Cove Station (Newfoundland) * Aspen Cove (Newfoundland) B * Back Cove, Fogo (Newfoundland) *Back Harbour, Twillingate (Newfoundland) * Bacon Cove, Conception Harbour (Newfoundland) *Badger's Quay, New-Wes-Valley (Newfoundland) * Bailey's Co ...
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