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Bonne Bay Parish
Corporate body · 1957-1980

The Bonne Bay Parish is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. In 1980, the Parish was split into two separate parishes, Bonne Bay North Parish, and Bonne Bay South Parish.
Churches include:
Epiphany (Woody Point)
School Chapel (Baker's Brook) (? - 1979)
St. Simon (Trout River)
Good Shepherd (Norris Point)
St. Matthew (Rocky Harbour)
Resurrection (Birchy Head)
School Chapel (Wiltondale)

Bowater Organization
Corporate body · 1923-

The Reid Newfoundland Company and other financial backers, under the name of Newfoundland Power and Paper Company, began construction of the mill in Corner Brook in 1923 . with the first paper produced in 1925. A planned, industrial town quickly grew around the mill site. In 1927 the company was incorporated as the International Paper Company of Newfoundland Limited and was acquired by Bowater-Lloyd Corporation in 1938. The company became part of the Kruger organization in December of 1984.

Corporate body · 1816 – 1855

The Methodist missions in Newfoundland were administered directly from England until 1816. In that year the missions were erected into a district of the British Wesleyan Methodist Conference under the supervision of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. In 1855 the districts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Bermuda and Newfoundland were formed into the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of Eastern British America. For a discussion of the history of the various Methodist bodies in Canada see Neil Semple, The Lord’s Dominion (Montreal, 1996). For a detailed history of the Methodist Church of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador see D.W. Johnson, Methodism in Eastern British America (Sackville, N.B., 1924).

Brooking & Co.
Corporate body · 1850-1869

Brooking & Co. was a St. John's-based mercantile firm, with branches in Trinity and Greenspond between 1850 and 1869. The firm was a successor to Robinson Brooking & Co., a major mercantile company in St. John's in the early 1800s.

Thomas Holdsworth Brooking (b. 1790) came to Newfoundland in 1806-7 as a mercantile clerk in the firm of Hart, Eppes, Gaden & Robinson of St. John's and London. In 1818, when the Newfoundland partner George Richard Robinson (nephew of George Garland) retired to the head office in London, Brooking became the resident partner in Newfoundland. Subsequently, the company traded as Hart, Robinson & Company. In 1838 Robinson & Brooking leased the Garland premises at Trinity.

Following the retirement and death of Robinson in 1850, Brooking continued the firm under the name of Brooking & Co., with William Lockyer as agent at Trinity. The firm relinquished its lease on the Garland premises in 1869, the year in which Brooking died, and the Garland premises were taken over by Grieve & Bremner. Expensive litigation between Brooking's two sons resulted in the rapid demise of the company.

Burgeo Parish
Corporate body · 1957-

The Burgeo Parish is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. In 1977, the Burgeo Parish dissolved into two parishes: Burgeo Parish, and Ramea Parish.
Churches include:
St. John the Evangelist (Burgeo)
St. Boniface (Ramea)
Transfiguration (Grey River)
St. John the Evangelist (Parson's River) (? - 1974)
St. Simon & St. Jude (Francois)

Corporate body · 1925-1962

Responsibility for the area covered by the Burin District of the Methodist Church of Canada was transferred to the Burin Presbytery of the United Church of Canada in 1925. The Presbytery was briefly (1928-1929) united with St. John's Presbytery. In 1962 Burin Presbytery was merged with Bonavista Presbytery to form Bonavista-Burin Presbytery.

C. & A. Dawe (firm)
Corporate body · 1877-1925

The firm of C. & A. Dawe of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, was formed circa 1877 by Captain Charles Dawe (1845-1908) and his brother, Azariah Dawe. It was a typical outport fish merchant operation in that goods were imported and sold to fishermen in exchange for their produce, which was then shipped to foreign markets. C. & A. Dawe may have imported and exported goods and produce on its own account since it was a large firm and probably not dependent on a St. John's supplier.

Captain Charles Dawe was a well-known schooner and steamer master in both the Labrador cod fishery and the sealing industry. Dawe was also active in politics, first sitting as a Conservative MHA for the district of Harbour Grace from 1878 to 1889, and later as representative for Port de Grave from 1893 to 1900. He sat on the Executive Council in the administrations of A. J. Goodridge (1894) and James Winter (1897-1900) and served briefly as leader of the opposition after the resignation of A. B. Morine in 1906.

Before his death in 1908, Charles Dawe wrote a will in which he stipulated that the business be wound up within five years of his death. While evidence exists that the business was wound up by the executors circa 1911, a 1923-1925 ledger confirms that the business was re-formed, either by Azariah, his son Robert, or some other family member.

Calypso (ship)
Corporate body · 1881-1922

The HMS Calypso was a 2814 ton Third Class British naval cruiser, built in Chatham, 1881-84. In October 1902, she was assigned by the British Admiralty as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve. She was stationed at St. John's and remained there until 1914, when she was used to protect Newfoundland shores and shipping during World War One. In 1916 the Calypso was renamed the HMS Briton and retained her function as a naval vessel until 1922 when she was sold to A. H. Murray and Company and used to store salt.

The Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) had been established by the Newfoundland Government in 1902 to strengthen Britain's naval resources in the area. In the same year the British Admiralty assigned the HMS Calypso to train the members of the Reserve. The Reserve maintained ranks of 375 reservists until the declaration of war in 1914. On August 1914 the Royal Naval Reserve was called up for active duty. The number of reservists was increased to over 1000, approaching almost 2000 by war's end in 1918. During the war the naval reservists were dispersed throughout the Royal Navy. The Royal Naval Reserve was decommissioned at the end of 1920.

Corporate body · 1967-

The Canada Games were conceived as a national development program for sport among representatives of all provinces and territories. The first Winter Games were held in February 1967 in Quebec City; the first Summer Games were held in August 1969 in Halifax.

Discussions about the possibility of St. John's hosting some aspect of the Canada Games began as early as 1970. A last-minute initiative in January and February of 1974 by St. John's mayor Dorothy Wyatt, resulted in a successful bid by Newfoundland and Labrador to obtain the 1977 Canada Summer Games. Preparations began as soon as the federal government's decision was announced on 16 March 1974. Newfoundland businessman Andrew Crosbie was appointed president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Canada Summer Games Society. Construction of the facilities were completed by June 1977 and the Games were declared open on 7 August 1977.

Newfoundland and Labrador sent over 200 competitors to the 1977 Summer Games. They competed in sixteen sports: archery, baseball, canoeing, cycling, diving, field hockey, lacrosse, sailing, shooting, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, water polo and water skiing. Newfoundland and Labrador athletes won one gold and three bronze medals during the competition and the Newfoundland and Labrador team won the Centennial Cup for the most improved showing. The games ended on 19 August 1977.

Corporate body · 1941-1987

In 1941, the Government of Canada established an airbase in Labrador to protect North America from a German air attack via Greenland, which came under German control after Denmark capitulated during World War II. The Royal Canadian Air Force Station Goose Bay was so-names on April 1, 1942. Soon afterwards the United States Government began to install facilities at the base, and by 1943, it was the world’s largest airport. After the end of World War II, contingents of both the Canadian and the United States Air Forces remained at Goose Bay. The Americans operated their Strategic Air Command from the base until 1976. In 1981, the Department of National Defense operated a permanent air base at Goose Bay, and the Royal Air Force (U.K.), the United States and the West German Air Force all operated commands from Goose Bay as well. Later, agreements were made between the Canadian Government and the Governments of the Federal Republic of West Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands and Italy to conduct low-level flight training at Goose Bay.