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  • The Centre for Newfoundland Studies in the Queen Elizabeth II Library contains the largest and, possibly, the best collection of Newfoundland and Labrador material available in the world. It has at least one copy of almost every book ever published about Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • To improve the severe housing problem in St. John's, the CEHTP worked on the creation of the Churchill Park garden suburb.
  • The family and community origins on the Eastport Peninsula, One of Newfoundland's smaller but more interesting peninsulas.
  • About the English and Irish origins of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians that immigrated between the 17th and 19th century.
  • France was one of the earliest European nations to engage in the migratory fishery and dominated the industry throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • French migrations to Newfoundland and Labrador began in the early 16th century and lasted for approximately 400 years.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's cod fishery was the major pull factor attracting French settlers to the colony from the 16th through 19th centuries.
  • The Irish played an important role in both the migratory and resident fisheries at Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Irish migrations began in the late-17th century and peaked in the early 19th century, when up to 35,000 Irish arrived on the island.
  • The Irish migrations to Newfoundland, and the associated provisions trade, represent the oldest connections between Ireland and Canada.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador is located on the far north-eastern fringe of North America, closer to Europe than any other part of the continent.
  • About the consequences of malnutrition in Newfoundland and Labrador and the efforts to prevent deficiency diseases.
  • Information about the history of St. John's, NL from 1500-1815.