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Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
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The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly is one of two components of the General Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, the other being the Lieutenant Governor. The Newfoundland and Labrador General Assembly meets in the Confederation Building at St. Johns, the governing party sits on the left side of the speaker of the House of Assembly as opposed to the traditional right side of the speaker. This tradition dates back to the 1850s because the heaters in the Colonial Building were located on the left side, thus, the government chose to sit in the heat, and leave the opposition sitting in the cold. Party leaders names are written in bold and cabinet ministers in italic, with the Speaker of the House of Assembly designated by a dagger
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Virginia Waters (electoral district)
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Virginia Waters is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The district was represented by former premier Kathy Dunderdale, the district was created in 1995 from parts of the districts of Pleasantville, St. Johns East Extern and Mount Scio Road-Bell Island. Virginia Waters retained 80 per cent of its territory in the 2007 redistribution. As of 2011 there are 9,938 eligible voters living within the district, the district has elected the following Members of the House of Assembly, Elections Newfoundland and Labrador Website Website of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
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Kathy Dunderdale
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Kathleen Mary Margaret Kathy Dunderdale, MHA is a Canadian politician who served as the tenth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, from December 3,2010, to January 24,2014. Dunderdale was born and raised in Burin, before entering politics she worked in the fields of community development, communications, fisheries and her first foray into politics was as a member of the Burin town council, where she served as deputy mayor. She was also a Progressive Conservative Party candidate in the 1993 general election, in the 2003 general election, Dunderdale was elected as Member of the House of Assembly for Virginia Waters. She was re-elected as MHA in the 2007 and 2011 general elections, Dunderdale became premier upon the resignation of Williams and after becoming the PC leader she led the party to victory in the October 2011 election. Dunderdale was the first female premier in the history and the sixth woman to serve as a premier in the history of Canada. Kathleen Mary Margaret Warren was born and raised in Burin, Newfoundland and Labrador by her mother Alice and father Norman, Dunderdale received a High School diploma in 1970. After attending Memorial University of Newfoundland for social work, she dropped out of university to get married and she met her late husband, Captain Peter Dunderdale, in 1972 while she was home from university for the summer. Captain Dunderdale was a British master mariner whose boat was in dry dock undergoing repairs, the couple had a son, Tom, and daughter, Sarah, together and Dunderdale was a stay-at-home mom during their formative years, while her husband sailed the world. When her children older, she worked away from home in many different volunteer roles. In the early 1980s, Dunderdale was on a committee that successfully lobbied Fishery Products International to reverse a decision to shut down its Burin fish plant. The committee was successful and the plant remains in operation and she worked as a social worker with the provincial Department of Social Services, and accepted an offer to be part of an appeals board for inshore fishers after the cod moratorium. Dunderdale served on the Burin town council and worked with an array of organizations, including the school board. She help found Women in Resource Development Corporation in 1997, an organization works to get women involved in the trades and technology sector in Newfoundland. In 1995, she and her husband moved to St. Johns and her husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in 2006 at age 56. Dunderdale was elected to the Burin town council in 1985, Dunderdale was the Progressive Conservative Candidate in the district of Fortune-Hermitage in the 1993 provincial election. In the 1995 Progressive Conservative leadership election Dunderdale served as co-chair of Lynn Verges successful campaign, following the election she was brought into cabinet as Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, and Minister Responsible for the Rural Secretariat. In a July 5,2006, cabinet shuffle Williams appointed Dunderdale as the Minister of Natural Resources and she was re-elected in the 2007 general election taking 73% of the popular vote against three other candidates. From February 1,2010, to March 15,2010, Dunderdale assumed the duties as acting Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, during her time as the Minister of Natural Resources she negotiated and signed several multibillion-dollar development deals
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Corner Brook
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For the submarine, see HMCS Corner Brook. Corner Brook is a city located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the Bay of Islands at the mouth of the Humber River, the city is the largest population centre in the province after St. Johns. As such, Corner Brook functions as a centre for western and northern Newfoundland. It is located on the latitude as Gaspé, Quebec. Corner Brook is the most northern city in Atlantic Canada and it is the administrative headquarters of the Qalipu Mikmaq First Nations band government. The Mikmaq name for the nearby Humber River is Maqtukwek, the area was surveyed by Captain James Cook in 1767. The Captain James Cook Historic Site stands on Crow Hill overlooking the city, by the middle of the 19th century the population of Corner Brook was less than 100, and the inhabitants were engaged in fishing and lumber work. In 1956, these four communities were amalgamated to form the present-day City of Corner Brook, Corner Brook is home to the Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Mill, which is a major employer for the region. The city has the largest regional hospital in western Newfoundland and it also has a wide array of shopping and retail businesses and federal and provincial government offices. It is also home to Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, as well as campuses of Academy Canada, Corner Brook is also home to the provinces newest high school, Corner Brook Regional High, which is an amalgamation of the former Regina and Herdman Collegiate high schools. Corner Brook is home to Marble Mountain Ski Resort, a skiing resort, and Blow-Me-Down trails. The Corner Brook Royals currently play in the West Coast Senior Hockey League and were the winners of the 1986 National Title, the Royals play their home games at the Corner Brook Civic Centre, formerly the Canada Games Centre. The arena was built in 1997 and was one of the venues used when the city of Corner Brook hosted the 1999 Canada Games. Corner Brook was host of the 2011 Special Olympics Provincial Winter Games from February 18–20, the city also twice hosted Raid the North Extreme, a televised 6-day multi-sport expedition race held in wilderness locations across Canada, and was a leg of the ITU World Cup Triathlon. Corner Brook is home to Grenfell Campus, Memorial University where a strong, Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre among other institutions thrive in promoting the arts on all levels from visual arts to theatre and well beyond. Corner Brook is home to Stage West Theatre Festival, a theatre festival running through the month of July, and Gros Morne Summer Music. The March Hare literary festival occurs every March and celebrates poetry and written works from around the world, featuring poets from around Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and the world. Atlantic Canadas largest poetry festival was founded in the late 1980s by poet and playwright Al Pittman, in April, the April Rabbit showcases new and young writers
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly province of Canada. Situated in the countrys Atlantic region, it comprises the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador to the northwest, in 2013, the provinces population was estimated at 526,702. About 92% of the population lives on the island of Newfoundland. The province is Canadas most linguistically homogeneous, with 97. 6% of residents reporting English as their mother tongue in the 2006 census, historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French and Irish, as well as the extinct Beothuk language. In Labrador, local dialects of Innu-aimun and Inuktitut are also spoken, Newfoundland and Labradors capital and largest city, St. Johns, is Canadas 20th-largest census metropolitan area and is home to almost 40 percent of the provinces population. St. Johns is the seat of government, home to the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador and to the highest court in the jurisdiction and it became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31,1949, as Newfoundland. On December 6,2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the official name to Newfoundland. The name Newfoundland is a translation of the Portuguese Terra Nova, the influence of early Portuguese exploration is also reflected in the name of Labrador, which derives from the surname of the Portuguese navigator João Fernandes Lavrador. Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly province in Canada, and is located at the corner of North America. The Strait of Belle Isle separates the province into two divisions, Labrador, which is a large area of mainland Canada, and Newfoundland. The province also includes over 7,000 tiny islands, each side is about 400 km long, and its area is 108,860 km2. Newfoundland and its small islands have a total area of 111,390 km2. Newfoundland extends between latitudes 46°36′N and 51°38′N, Labrador is an irregular shape, the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula. Lands drained by rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean are part of Labrador, most of Labradors southern boundary with Quebec follows the 52nd parallel of latitude. Labradors extreme northern tip, at 60°22′N, shares a border with Nunavut. Together, Newfoundland and Labrador make up 4. 06% of Canadas area, Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America. Colliding tectonic plates have shaped much of the geology of Newfoundland, gros Morne National Park has a reputation as an outstanding example of tectonics at work, and as such has been designated a World Heritage Site. The Long Range Mountains on Newfoundlands west coast are the northeasternmost extension of the Appalachian Mountains, the north-south extent of the province, prevalent westerly winds, cold ocean currents and local factors such as mountains and coastline combine to create the various climates of the province
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Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador
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The Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador is a political party in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and the provincial wing of the Liberal Party of Canada. It has served as the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador since December 14,2015, the party originated in 1948 as the Newfoundland Confederate Association. At this time, Newfoundland was being governed by a Commission of Government appointed by the Government of the United Kingdom, the NCA was an organization campaigning for Newfoundland to join Canadian confederation. Joey Smallwood was the NCAs chief organizer and spokesman, and led the side of the 1948 Newfoundland referendum on Confederation. Following the referendum victory, the NCA reorganized itself as the new provinces Liberal Party under Smallwoods leadership and it won the provinces first post-Confederation election for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly held on May 27,1949. The Liberals under Smallwood promoted the diversification of the economy through various megaprojects. These projects were very expensive, and yielded few results. Smallwood led the province virtually unchallenged for two decades, during which he never faced more than eight opposition MHAs, however, by the late 1960s, disaffection with the increasingly autocratic Smallwood and his government mounted within the province. Smallwood brought several younger Liberals into government during this time, and he announced his retirement in 1969, only to run in the contest to succeed himself. Smallwood defeated John Crosbie for the leadership, Crosbie along with many young Liberals defected to the opposition Progressive Conservatives. The Progressive Conservatives had previously found support largely in the business community, frank Moores Conservatives attempted to form government but its shaky hold on power resulted in the 1972 general election in which Smallwoods Liberals were conclusively, if narrowly, defeated. Smallwood was forced out of the party, and formed his own Newfoundland Reform Liberal Party, which ran in the 1975 general election against the Liberals, the Liberals were badly split and demoralised, and remained on the opposition benches until 1989. In the 1989 provincial election the Liberals returned to power under Clyde Wells, despite their majority win the Progressive Conservatives narrowly won the popular vote, winning 47. 6% of the vote compared to 47.2 for the Liberals. Wells rose to prominence in early 1990 for his opposition to the Meech Lake constitutional Accord. In September 1990, Wells signed a development agreement for the Hibernia project, thereby laying the foundation for the oil and gas industry. When Wells retired in 1996, he was replaced by former federal Liberal cabinet minister Brian Tobin, Tobin returned to federal politics in 2000, after only four years as Premier. Less than two years into his second mandate Tobin announced his resignation as premier on October 16,2000, tobins Deputy Premier Beaton Tulk was sworn in as his successor the same day and served as premier till a leadership convention could be held the new year. Minister of Health Roger Grimes, Fisheries Minister John Efford and Mines, Grimes and Efford were the perceived frontrunners in the leadership race and were considered to be very different candidates with different strengths
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