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Article: Canada's poorest province gets its day; With vast oil and mineral wealth, Newfoundland and Labrador is finally emerging from obscurity.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 28, 2006
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Byline: Fred Langan
TORONTO -- "I am inclined to regard this land as the one God gave to Cain," wrote French explorer Jacques Cartier in May 1534 when he first saw the coast of Labrador, now a part of the province called Newfoundland and Labrador.
Cartier's unflattering description seemed to have stuck - until recently. Once the poorest province in Canada, this vast, snow-covered, and heavily wooded area may see the country's fastest growth this year, with a projected 5.2 percent increase in gross domestic product, eclipsing even that of oil-rich Alberta.
While several new industrial and transportation developments have bolstered this once ...