Corner Brook is strategically located close to airports and the Trans Canada
Highway. Over 42,000 people
reside in the Corner Brook region, with 20,105
in the City of Corner Brook and over 20,000
residing in communities along the shores of the
Bay of Islands and in the Humber River Valley.
The majority of the region's residents travel to
Corner Brook to shop, work or go to school. The
City's location makes it the hub of
distribution, service, retail and medical
activity for the west coast of Newfoundland.
Experience our picturesque City from many
groomed walking trails or visit the Captain
James Cook Monument and bask in the glory of the
sun setting over the Bay of Islands. Step back
in time at the
Corner Brook Museum and Archives
or the
Railway Society of Newfoundland Historic
Train Site. Explore our downtown area and
discover unique gifts and crafts and dine out in
one of the City's many fine restaurants. Take a
scenic drive along the coast of the Bay of
Islands or have a more extreme adventure in
Gros Morne National Park, just one hour away.
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 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.
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 areas three fish
processing plants, and at the paper mill.
Four distinct communities with unique commercial
activities had developed along the shores of the
Bay of Islands. Curling with its fishery; Humber
West with its retail businesses; Humbermouth
with its railway operations; and Townsite, home
to the employees of the pulp and paper mill. In
1956, these four communities were amalgamated to
form the present-day City of Corner Brook.
Theatre and art are alive in Corner Brook.
Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador (TNL), one of
the province's only professional theatre
companies, maintains its home office in Corner
Brook. The Arts and Culture Centre sets the
stage for visiting productions - ballet
companies, comedians, theatrical productions and
musical artists all make Corner Brook a stop on
their Canadian tours.
The visual arts are also thriving in Corner
Brook. Painters, photographers and sculptors
find inspiration in the landscape and culture of
Corner Brook and a number of art galleries
display and sell their work. Those interested in
visual art can study at Memorial University of
Newfoundland's Sir Wilfred Grenfell College,
which has offered a Bachelor of Fine Arts
program since 1988.
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