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Harbour Grace

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Harbour Grace, town (1991 pop. 3,419), SE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on Conception Bay. It is a leading fishing port and has fish-processing plants. It was settled c.1550 and is one of the oldest towns in the province. An airport is nearby.


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Trepassey and Harbour Grace, both in the Avalon region, are important places in the annals of early flight, and Gander, in the center of the island, was the major refueling point for transatlantic flights until fairly recently.
It took 15 hours and 13 minutes to fly from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to Londonderry Ireland.
One example, documented in 1755, stated: Whereas I am informed that a Roman Catholic priest is at this time at Harbour Grace, and that he publicly read mass which is contrary to the law and against the peace of our sovereign Lord, the King.
 
 
 
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