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The Corner Brook Region

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is located off the east coast of Canada. Corner Brook is situated on the west coast of the island portion of the province. The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are known worldwide for their open and friendly nature and their unwavering hospitality. The people of Corner Brook live up to this reputation.

The City is nestled among the folded and faulted Long Range Mountains, which are a continuation of the Appalachian Mountain belt, stretching up from Georgia in the southern United States. Set at the mouth of the Bay of Islands, the City is 40 km (25 miles) inland from the open waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The landscape of the Corner Brook region is rugged and the scenery is spectacular. The surrounding coastline holds magnificent fjords, jagged headlands, thickly forested areas and many offshore islands. Wildlife, forest and water mingle with the City's borders on all sides and mountains fill the horizon in all directions.



History

The history of the Corner Brook region is long and diverse. For thousands of years, people have lived and worked along the shores of the Bay of Islands and in the Humber River Valley, including two aboriginal groups - the Maritime Archaic Indians and the Beothuk people.

James Cook, the famous British cartographer and explorer was the first to survey and record the geography of the Bay of Islands. Throughout the summer of 1767 he surveyed most of the area and copies of the maps he created are displayed at the Captain James Cook Monument in Corner Brook.

The area served as a meeting, marketing and distribution point for local fisherman, who fished the Strait of Belle Isle by summer and spent the winters working in Corner Brook's lumber woods. Permanent settlement came as a result of the island-wide railway system and the construction of the pulp and paper mill in the mid-1920s. During the war years of 1939-1945, both the pulp and paper industry and the fishery were booming and Corner Brook was prosperous. Soon after the end of World War II, a cement plant and a gypsum wallboard plant were established, creating new jobs in addition to those already available at the area¹s three fish processing plants, and at the paper mill.
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Bed and Breakfast Inns
Corner Brook

We are thrilled to WELCOME you to a great Bed and Breakfast in beautiful Trinity Bay, Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada. They offers first class hospitality and superb accommodations - the perfect bed and breakfast setting for a special holiday, for honeymooners or for a Getaway.

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Bed and Breakfast Inns
Corner Brook

5 Star Bed & Breakfast nestled in the beautiful Humber Valley on the western coast of the province, just 10 minutes east of Corner Brook. Although only nine years old, great effort has been expended in decorating in order to portray a colonial-style bed and breakfast in a country setting. We feature elegant guestrooms with en suite bathrooms, and an abundance of antiques and local artwork is displayed throughout. Adams House features hardwood flooring, and a no-pets, nonsmoking environment for those patrons desiring high levels of cleanliness.