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Newfoundland

Was the first to respond to Titanic's distress signal-received at Cape Race
Has no snakes, skunks or ragweed pollen on the island
Has the oldest city in North America
Has the oldest street in North America
Has the oldest rock in the world
Has the most pubs per square foot in Canada
Has 17,540 km (10,900 miles) of coastline
Has a population of 568,500, including 30,400 in Labrador
Was host to a meeting with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for the Atlantic Conference in 1941
Was where France last held territory in Canada, during a brief occupation of St. John's in 1762

Is midway between Italy and Canada's westernmost province, British Columbia
Extends to latitudes further south than Vancouver, London and Tacoma
Has the longest running radio program in North America
Had the first court of justice in North America, set up in Trinity in 1615 by Sir Richard Whitbourne

Hosted Marconi's 1901 experiments when he received the first transatlanti wireless signal
Was "discovered" by an Italian we call John Cabot in 1497 who sailed from Bristol, England

Was the first place in North America where the Jenner smallpox vaccine was tested, at Trinity around 1800
Was the departure point for the first non-stop air crossing of the Atlantic by Alcock and Brown in 1919

Hosted more than 40 pioneering transatlantic flights between 1919 and 1937, hosting such pilots as Amelia Earhart, Charles and Anne Lingbergh, Wiley Post, Harold Gatty, the giant German seaplane DO-X, an Italian air armada led by General Italo Balbo, and the inaugural transatlantic flights of Pan American and British Imperial Airways

Has two United Nations World Heritage Sites
Has 176 rivers where Atlantic Salmon may be caught by rod and reel
Has the oldest aboriginal burial mound in North America, a 7,000-year-old grave at L'Anse -Amour in Labrador
Was the site of the first European settlement in the New World, the 1,000-year-old Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows
Was granted Responsible Government by Britain in 1855
Was the landing point for the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, at Heart's Content in 1866
Has a network of 31 provincial parks and reserves
Has more than 130 fishing and hunting lodges and camps
Has a moose population of 150,000
Has the largest caribou herd in the world
Has the southernmost woodland caribou herd in the world on the island
Is home to more than 20 species of whales and dolphins
Has the largest breeding concentration of Atlantic Puffins in the northwest Atlantic in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, one of more than 60 major seabird colonies in the province

Hosts millions of pairs of seabirds, such as Leach's storm petrels, black-legged kittiwakes, common murres, northern gannets, thick billed murres, black guillemots

	Facts Facts and Quirky Figures Newfoundland Was the first to respond to Titanic's distress signal-received at Cape Race Has no snakes, skunks or ragweed pollen on the island Has the oldest city in North America Has the oldest street in North America Has the oldest rock in the world Has the most pubs per square foot in Canada Has 17,540 km (10,900 miles) of coastline Has a population of 568,500, including 30,400 in Labrador Was host to a meeting with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for the Atlantic Conference in 1941 Was where France last held territory in Canada, during a brief occupation of St. John's in 1762 Is midway between Italy and Canada's westernmost province, British Columbia Extends to latitudes further south than Vancouver, London and Tacoma Has the longest running radio program in North America Had the first court of justice in North America, set up in Trinity in 1615 by Sir Richard Whitbourne Hosted Marconi's 1901 experiments when he received the first transatlanti wireless signal Was "discovered" by an Italian we call John Cabot in 1497 who sailed from Bristol, England Was the first place in North America where the Jenner smallpox vaccine was tested, at Trinity around 1800 Was the departure point for the first non-stop air crossing of the Atlantic by Alcock and Brown in 1919 Hosted more than 40 pioneering transatlantic flights between 1919 and 1937, hosting such pilots as Amelia Earhart, Charles and Anne Lingbergh, Wiley Post, Harold Gatty, the giant German seaplane DO-X, an Italian air armada led by General Italo Balbo, and the inaugural transatlantic flights of Pan American and British Imperial Airways Has two United Nations World Heritage Sites Has 176 rivers where Atlantic Salmon may be caught by rod and reel Has the oldest aboriginal burial mound in North America, a 7,000-year-old grave at L'Anse -Amour in Labrador Was the site of the first European settlement in the New World, the 1,000-year-old Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows Was granted Responsible Government by Britain in 1855 Was the landing point for the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable, at Heart's Content in 1866 Has a network of 31 provincial parks and reserves Has more than 130 fishing and hunting lodges and camps Has a moose population of 150,000 Has the largest caribou herd in the world Has the southernmost woodland caribou herd in the world on the island Is home to more than 20 species of whales and dolphins Has the largest breeding concentration of Atlantic Puffins in the northwest Atlantic in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, one of more than 60 major seabird colonies in the province Hosts millions of pairs of seabirds, such as Leach's storm petrels, black-legged kittiwakes, common murres, northern gannets, thick billed murres, black guillemots