y the 1940’s two sizable communities developed out
of the Newfoundland pulp and paper industry, Corner Brook and Grand Falls.
Unlike St.John’s, the people of Corner Brook saw their future in terms of
land and forest rather than in terms of fish and it’s markets.
They did much of their buying direct from Canada and resented
bitterly the wide range of prices between goods advertised in Canadian
newspapers and those sold in their own stores. The people blamed custom
duties for the difference of prices, and most Corner Brook residents generally
favored Confederation with Canada as the simplest way of eliminating the duties.
They felt that St. John’s was obsessed with the fisheries problem to the neglect
of Newfoundland resources. Many talked about the day when Corner Brook would take
over the seat of government in Newfoundland.
Being the greatest single employers of labor on the island and
responsible for nearly fifty percent of its export totals in value, the
pulp and paper industry, with production sold in advance for years, was booming!
Corner Brook’s production of pulp and paper went partly to
Britain in the form of pulpwood and sulphite pulp and partly to
the U.S. and other countries as newsprint. It was forecast that
in 1948 with the addition of a new newspaper machine at Bowater
mill, Corner Brook would be the site of the largest producer of newsprint in the world.
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By the 1940’s two sizable communities developed out
of the Newfoundland pulp and paper industry, Corner Brook and Grand Falls.
Unlike St.John’s, the people of Corner Brook saw their future in terms of
land and forest rather than in terms of fish and it’s markets.