Vintage Official Road Map, History Guidebook for Newfoundland & Labrador 1980’s for Sale

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Vintage Official Road Map, History Guidebook for Newfoundland & Labrador 1980’s For Sale

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Vintage Official Road Map, History Guidebook for Newfoundland & Labrador 1980’s:
$11.99

Includes an excellent vintage official road map for Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada’s easternmost province (with its own time zone), first European settlement (in 1563) and newest province (joining the Dominion in 1949). Features a road map of the island of Newfoundland, covering 42,000 square miles (29% of the provincial area) and home to about 510,000 (about 94% of the provincial total), along with more detailed maps of the island’s major towns (St. John’s, Corner Brook, Grand Falls and Gander) and a map of Atlantic Canada (which, besides Newfoundland & Labrador, includes Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) on one side, along with road maps of Labrador (the northern, continental part of the province, on the subarctic North Atlantic coast), a remote, thinly population land (covering over 100,000 square miles with less than 30,000 residents) and a road map of the Avalon Peninsula (the southeast corner of Newfoundland), with an area of just 3,600 square miles but over half the province’s population (from the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Development, Tourism Division, circa 1980); and a most excellent history guidebook for Newfoundland and Labrador, covering the lure of Newfoundland (first explored by Vikings over a thousand years ago), Old St. John (North America’s oldest and easternmost city), the English settlement of Ferryland & other old colonies, towns of the North & the West Coast, Newfoundland folklore, place names & folk songs, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland & Labrador, as well as the Vikings & Portuguese in Newfoundland (from L.E.F. English/Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Development, 1985).