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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
Newfoundland and Labrador 1924 Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro: Electricity generation & distribution Eastern Canada and North-eastern United States: 1954 Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation: Retail Newfoundland and Labrador 1954 North Atlantic Refining: Petroleum refining and marketing Canada 1994 Pope Productions: Production: Canada 1998
With a legacy of more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the go-to watchdog for evaluating businesses and charities. The nonprofit organization maintains a massive database of ...
Zita Cobb, CM, is a Canadian businesswoman and social entrepreneur [1] [2] who grew up on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a small outport fishing community off the North Atlantic Ocean. [ 3 ] Zita is the co-founder and CEO of the registered Canadian charity, Shorefast , which she launched with her brothers Anthony and Alan Cobb, on Fogo Island in 2004.
The Newfoundland Margarine Company (until 1950, the Newfoundland Butter Company) was Canada's first oleomargarine manufacturing company, and a leading producer in the Dominion of Newfoundland and after 1949, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was founded by Sir John Chalker Crosbie [ 1] in 1925 and was one of three margarine plants ...
Newfoundland and its neighbouring small islands (excluding French possessions) have an area of 111,390 km 2 (43,010 sq mi). [19] Newfoundland extends between latitudes 46°36′N and 51°38′N. [20] [21] Labrador is also roughly triangular in shape: the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula ...
History of Canada. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador covers the period from habitation by Archaic peoples thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day Newfoundland and Labrador were inhabited for millennia by different groups of Indigenous peoples.
Bonavista (2021 population: 3,190 [1]) is a town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.Unlike many Newfoundland coastal settlements, Bonavista was built on an open plain, not in a steep cove, and thus had room to expand to its current area of 31.5 km 2 (12.2 sq mi). [1]