Stephenville tourist information
"The first settlers of Stephenville were Acadian families from Cape Breton who migrated there in 1848. The first settlers established a farming and fishing community from premises below Indian Head, southeast of the present town. By the turn of the century, fishing had taken over from agriculture as the major occupation. Stephenville was already known as Newfoundland's ""Acadian Village,"" being almost exclusively Roman Catholic and largely French speaking up until World War II. In the 1901 census, Stephenville had 643 residents, only nine of whom were Protestant. Lumbering became one of the main sources of employment after the opening of the Corner Brook paper mill in 1925. Stephenville is located on the west coast of the island portion of the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Stephenville, settled by Acadians as early as 1845, was a small village that survived on fishing and farming. During early 1940 the Americans leased land from the British government to build Stephenville Air Base, later named Ernest Harmon Field. With the closing of the American base in 1966, Stephenville was left with an airport runway 10,000 feet long, capable of handling the world's largest aircraft. "
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