Argentia ( ) is a Canadian commercial seaport and industrial park located in the Town of Placentia,

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. It is situated on the southwest coast of the

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and defined by a triangular shaped headland which reaches northward out into

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creating a natural harbour in length. Originally settled by the French in the 1630s that fishing settlement was called Petit Plaisance, meaning "Pleasant Little Place". The name was retained in English (Little Placentia) when the French lost control of the area following the

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in 1713. The census of 1706 records 149 individuals in 14 habitations. The community adopted its present name (unofficially in 1895 and officially in 1901) for the presence of silver ore near Broad Cove Point on the east side of the harbour. The name "Argentia" is Latin, meaning "Land of Silver" and was chosen by Father John St. John, the parish priest at Holy Rosary Parish from September 18, 1895, to February 11, 1911. The Silver Cliff Mine operated until the early 1920s but was never profitable. Through most of the 19th century, the

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was the lifeblood of the community; the

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built a

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factory at Argentia in 1936. The first church and school were established by Father Pelagius Nowlan in 1835. He was from Ireland and moved to Newfoundland as a missionary priest. In 1836, population was made up 484 people in 76 houses.

Railway comes to town

Construction started on a branch line to nearby Placentia from the Harbour Grace Railway mainline near Whitbourne (what would later become part of the

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) on October 14, 1886, and the of track were completed by October 1888. This line became known as the "Placentia Branch" and it served as a key route to Placentia and the nearby port and anchorage of Little Placentia where coastal ferries would run to outports along the south coast of the island. The Newfoundland Railway chose Port aux Basques to be its western terminus in 1893 and a new ferry intended for service to

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, was built in Scotland. In October 1897, the new vessel named the SS ''Bruce'' arrived but the docks at Port aux Basques had not been completed. As a result, from October until June, 1898 (when it reverted to Port aux Basques), the ''Bruce'' operated first from Placentia and then from Little Placentia to North Sydney.

Death of a village

Second World War

War between Britain and

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was declared on September 3, 1939, after

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's forces invaded Poland. Argentia was selected in 1940 to be the location of the

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Naval Station Argentia Naval Station Argentia is a former base of the United States Navy that operated from 1941 to 1994. It was established in the community of Argentia in the Dominion of Newfoundland, which later became the tenth Canadian province, Newfoundland and ...

being built under the United States-British

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(which preceded the introduction of

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in 1941) which saw fifty obsolete US destroyers given to Britain in exchange for control of selected lands controlled by Britain in the Western Hemisphere. The Argentia site was selected due to its proximity to Europe, the relatively ice-free nature of Placentia Bay, the safe navigational access channel, the sheltered harbour with secure deepwater anchorages nearby at Fox Harbour and Ship Harbour, as well as the local topography for an airfield and the existing railway line. The base was urgently needed as part of the trans-Atlantic supply line which joined North America to Britain, in order to provide

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patrols to protect shipping from the

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fleet.

Lend-lease arrangement

The land beneath the village was traded to the United States for construction of the base under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement and the residents of Argentia and

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received the following notices: ''In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Defence (requisition of land) Regulations, made under the Emergency Powers Defence Act 1940, on the 28th day of December AD 1940, I do authorize all persons who shall be engaged by the

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or its agents and contractors on the construction for that government of any naval, military or air works at Argentia to do any work on any land or place any thing in, on, or over any land upon the Argentia Peninsula, insofar as it shall be necessary for any such person so to do for the carrying out of any such work of construction including any preliminary work in relation thereto.'' ''Provided, however, that this present authority shall not be valid to authorize the demolition, pulling down or destruction of any building or erection upon any such land, or the doing of any act which renders any such building or erection intangible.'' ''Signed, Wilfrid Woods, Commissioner for Public Utilities'' ''"The Defence (requisition of land) Regulations made under the Emergency Powers Defence Act 1940 on the 28th day of December, A.D., 1940.'' ''I have to notify you that the lands and buildings lately belonging to and occupied by you at Argentia, for which said lands and buildings payment has been awarded, are required for occupation by the Government of Newfoundland not later than ________. Take notice, therefore, that the said premises must be completely vacated by you and peaceably yielded up to the Government of Newfoundland, its servants, agents, on or before the date mentioned.'' ''Signed: WW Woods, Commissioner for Public Utilities"''

Relocation

Most people relocated to the nearby villages of

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or Placentia. However, what little had been paid as compensation (usually no more than a few thousand dollars for homeowners in Argentia) proved inadequate for building equivalent new homes due to severe wartime shortages of labour and materials. Those buried in the three local graveyards were exhumed and reburied in a new cemetery constructed by the US forces at the insistence of the local parish priest, Father A. J. Dee, who had also raised objections to the wartime delays in finding new housing for Argentia's living residents who were being forced to leave the village. The abandoned homes were ultimately burned or levelled by bulldozers. The

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was raised in Argentia on February 13, 1941.

Timeline

* 1503 : Portuguese Visit Placentia Bay * 1630 : French settled Plaisance (Placentia), Petite Plaisance (Argentia), and Pointe Verte (Point Verde) * 1831 : Father Pelagius Nowlan established Holy Rosary Parish and became first parish priest * 1835 : Bishop

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visits the parish * 1871 : Father Pelagius Nowlan died in Little Placentia * 1871 : Father Robert Brennan became parish priest * 1895 : Father St. John becomes parish priest * 1895 : Name of Little Placentia unofficially changed to Argentia * 1901 : Little Placentia's name officially changed to Argentia * 1911 : Father John Ashley became parish priest * 1911 : Population of Great Placentia is 1,315 * 1918 : Father Thomas Devereaux became parish priest for several months * 1918 : Father J.D. Savin became parish priest * 1921 : Population of Argentia was 392 (not including Marquise, Pond Head, Point Mall, Argentia Crossing, Long Hill, etc.) * 1921 : Population of Marquise was 262 * 1921 : Population of Long Hill was 3 * 1921 : Population of Point Mall was 59 * 1922 : Father Adrian Joyce Dee became parish priest and held position until 1951 * 1941 :

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occupied Argentia * 1941 : US flag formally raised * July 15, 1941 : Naval Operating Base commissioned * August 10, 1941 :

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meeting between President

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and Prime Minister

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was held aboard US and British vessels at anchor within Ship Harbour * August 28, 1941 : Naval Air Station commissioned * 1942 : USS ''Pollux'' and USS ''Truxtun'' were lost when wrecked near St. Lawrence and

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on their way to Argentia * 1942 : US Army Base, Fort McAndrew, established at Argentia * Summer of 1942 : US Army Air Units arrive at base in Argentia and assisted in anti-submarine patrols * February 1943 : The first Bachelor Officer Quarters building at the Naval Air Station burns to the ground in disastrous million dollar fire * 1944 :

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Task Force 22 used Argentia extensively in anti-submarine operations * 1944 : Captured German

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, the '' Externstein'', was brought into Argentia by Commodore Rose * May 6, 1945 : European War ends * 1945 :

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Edward H. Smith relieved as Commander, Task Force 24, by Rear Admiral E. G. Rose * 1945 : Two German submarines captured in Europe stop at Argentia en route to the United States. U-Boats, sailed on the surface by prize crews, put in for fuel, repairs, provisions, and stores * 1956 : Comedian

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is stationed at Argentia * 1994 : US Base officially closed * 1999 : Bachelor Officer Quarters Implosion

Naval Station Argentia

Throughout 1940–1941 the US Navy constructed an airfield and navy base and built an extension to the Newfoundland Railway to service their facilities, owing to the condition of local roads. The navy base construction in particular was a priority with Navy Operating Base Argentia being officially commissioned on July 15, 1941.

Atlantic Charter

The reason for the rush was made clear on August 7, 1941, when the heavy cruiser USS ''Augusta'' (CA-31) carrying U.S. President

arrived at an anchorage outside Argentia near Ship Harbour. Roosevelt inspected the base construction progress and did some fishing from ''Augusta'' over the next two days. ''Augusta'' was joined by the British warship HMS ''Prince of Wales'' carrying British Prime Minister

on August 9, 1941. While in the Ship Harbour anchorage from August 9–12, the chiefs of staff of Britain and the US met to discuss the war strategies and logistics once the US joined the war. The two leaders and their aides also negotiated the wording of a press release that they called a "joint statement". Though not drafted as a legal agreement requiring signatures, Roosevelt and Churchill did sign their own draft markups of the joint statement which was issued as a press release on August 14, 1941, in Washington, D.C., and was issued simultaneously in London, England. Several days later the '' Daily Herald'', a London newspaper, would characterize the contents of that press release as the

. statement. On August 28, 1941, Naval Station Argentia was officially commissioned by the US Navy. Argentia would prove to be an important base in the US war effort; by 1943 with the U.S. fully involved in the Second World War, Argentia saw upwards of 10,000 US personnel passing through on the way to the

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. An adjoining

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base was established as Fort McAndrew to provide anti-aircraft artillery protection for the navy base and naval air station. In 1946 Fort McAndrew became part of the

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and was renamed McAndrew Air Force Base in 1948.

Cold War

With VE in 1945, Argentia saw a drop in personnel but by the start of the

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in 1947–1948, personnel numbers rose to 7,000. By the end of the

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in 1953, Argentia saw a total of 8,500 personnel posted in the area. In 1955 McAndrew AFB was deactivated and turned over to the US Navy as the US Air Force moved its personnel to more remote and northern locations along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to build radar stations which would become part of the

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and

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systems. In the 1960s

became a key "node" in the US Navy's

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underwater

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system. As such, the base was the target for several

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attempts by the

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. By 1969 the total US Navy and

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contingents had dropped to 3,000 and to 1,000 by 1971.

Closure and abandonment

As facilities and structures closed, assets were transferred to the

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under the terms of the U.S.-Britain lend-lease program;

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having become a Canadian province in 1949. In 1973 Naval Air Station Argentia was closed and by 1975 the entire north side of the base was out of US hands. In 1994 Naval Operating Base Argentia, was officially decommissioned and the site was transferred to the Government of Canada. From 1994 to 2007, the Government of Canada carried out a $106 million

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program at Argentia which included the removal of many building structures, and the clean up, removal or safe containment of various hazardous materials on the land and in the water about the site. Concurrently, by 2001, the site was turned over to a private, not-for-profit organization to manage and lead the redevelopment of Argentia. With the military base now closed, Argentia has no permanent residents and is zoned as an industrial area in support of its redevelopment as a seaport and industrial park for the Town of Placentia.

Redevelopment

Argentia became part of Town of Placentia in 1993, along with

, Dunville, Jerseyside and townside Placentia. By the end of 2001, Government of Canada had negotiated land transfer agreements to return the lands which formerly comprised the US Naval Base to local ownership and control. ''Port of Argentia'', is the port and property authority for the industrial area and is utilizing these former naval base properties to lead the redevelopment of the site to revitalize the local economy and quality of life in the region. In June 2002,

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announced an agreement with the

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on a three phase plan to develop the

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nickel deposit. The $1 billion initial phase of the Voisey's Bay agreement provided for mine and mill infrastructure development at Voisey's Bay, and a research and development program in hydrometallurgical processing which would include a demonstration plant to be built at Argentia. the demonstration plant at Argentia was constructed and operated from 2004 to 2007. The demonstration plant was an initial step toward the ultimate development of a commercial hydrometallurgical processing facility, the

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, to be constructed and operated in Long Harbour.Inco announcement
/ref> In October, 2013,

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and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced an agreement to amend the White Rose Development.

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is the name of an oil field offshore Newfoundland. The announcement included the news that this oil resource could be exploited by installing a gravity based 'wellhead platform' structure over the western section of the oil field on the ocean floor in approximately of water. To support this billion dollar wellhead platform construction project, Husky announced that it would be establishing a

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facility on the Northside Peninsula at Argentia to support the construction of the concrete base of the wellhead platform. Construction of the graving dock began in late 2013 and was finished in early 2015. However, in December 2014, Husky announced that, due to declining oil prices, the decision to construct the Concrete Gravity Base (CGS) had been deferred.

Transportation

Airport

The former US Navy Air Station airfield on the Northside Peninsula has not been active for air traffic since 1973 other than for the Air Cadet Gliding Program.

Ferry terminal

By the mid-1960s roads were upgraded between Argentia and the newly opened

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at Whitbourne. In 1967 a new ferry terminal was opened by

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and the '' Ambrose Shea'' became the first seasonal ferry to call at the port, largely carrying tourists bound for the Avalon Peninsula (19 hours crossing time) from

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. In the 1980s the terminal was upgraded by

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and in 1989 the company's successor,

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, welcomed the MV ''Joseph and Clara Smallwood'' ferry (14 hours crossing time) on the Argentia summer run, until 2011, when it was replaced by the MV Blue Puttees and

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References

External links

Town of Placentia

Port of Argentia

Argentia Management Authority (responsible for development of former USN properties)

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