Decline and Adjustment at the Periphery, West Coast of Newfoundland

• Main Author: Johnson, Marc L.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institut national de la recherche scientifique 2002
• Subjects: Terre-Neuve; Labrador; rural; Urbain; emploi; développement économique; Industrie de la pêche; industrie des fruits de mer; Newfoundland; Corner Brook; Canada; Ochre
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/9521/; https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/9521/1/Johnson_2002_Decline%20and%20Adjustment.pdf

In this study, we have focussed on the West Coast of Newfoundland, a region that faces the North Shore in Quebec and Labrador, along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The only urban centre in this vast, sparsely populated (2.9 pers./km2 ) and mostly rural (64 percent) region is Corner Brook. Historically, t...