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The drive from Grand Bank to Parliament Hill would take 35 hours, across 2,765 km, via the ferry to Nova Scotia and the Trans-Canada Highway.
This riding is characterized by rugged rocky shores and sheltered, while the inland areas are forested and hilly. The many harbours of the riding are a result of ancient glaciation and were formed when the ice caps melted.
Bonavista—Burin—Trinity is between the Avalon Peninsula and the riding of Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame. It borders the Atlantic Ocean on the north and south and includes Placentia Bay, Trinity Bay, and Bonavista Bay.
Less than 1% of the riding’s population are immigrants.
Approximately 2% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal.
Average individual income is $38,924.
Terra Nova National Park offers hiking and cross country skiing trails, bike paths, canoeing and kayaking, swimming, fishing, a golf course, camping, and live entertainment during the summer.
The Rising Tide Theatre has dinner theatre and other theatrical performances, but is best known for the New Founde Lande Trinity Pageant. The pageant is a musical performance that takes place on a walking tour.
The Bonavista Peninsula contains a number of historic sites related to European colonization of Canada. These include the Ryan Premises (an example of the booming cod fishing trade that was essential to the economy of the province) and the Mockbeggar Plantation (several commercial buildings and a cod liver oil factory that was also the home of a Newfoundland advocate of Confederation).
Traditionally, fishing was the main industry. Cod was the main export for hundreds of years, but due to overfishing, a moratorium on cod fishing was put in place in 1992. The ban put 30,000 people out of work, many of them in Bonavista—Burin—Trinity.
With the decline of fishing, tourism plays an increasingly important role in the economy.
Today, while there are some signs of cod populations around the world showing a rebound, the Atlantic cod population remains low and the moratorium remains in place. Reports from 2015 indicate a recovery from the lowest point of the early 1990s, though experts remain cautious to calls for larger catch quotas.
Bonavista is one of the oldest European-settled communities in North America. It is speculated that Bonavista’s name originated from Italian explorer John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), as it sounds very similar to the Italian phrase “O buon vista” meaning “Oh happy sight,” as is extremely possible that Bonavista was the first place Cabot landed when he reached North America in 1497.
