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Corner Brook, Newfoundland. A view of downtown, looking west along Main Street from the bridge over the Humber River. Although the west coast of Newfoundland was well-known to Basque and, later, French fishermen and whalers - and although the Bay of Islands and the Humber River were described and mapped in 1767 by none other than the famous Captain James Cook - no permanent settlements were established in the Corner Brook area until the late 18th or early 19th Century. Even as late as 1850, when many of the towns of the Avalon Peninsula and adjacent precincts of eastern Newfoundland had already been established a hundred or more years, the west was still a hinterland and Corner Brook was a tiny cluster of fishing shacks with a population of less than 100. That would soon change, as fishermen hit on the dense forests of interior Newfoundland as a way to earn money in the winter; soon many of them were moonlighting as lumberjacks, and Corner Brook became a small but active sawmill town. The next century saw exponential growth in Corner Brook, with the forestry industry bolstered significantly in 1900 by the extension of the Newfoundland Railway into town, and again, definitively, when the massive mill of the International Paper Company of Newfoundland (now Corner Brook Pulp & Paper) was erected at the mouth of the Humber River in 1925. The factory soon came to dominate the local economy: it owned over 3.6 million acres (1.5 million hectares) of Newfoundland timberlands and was responsible for the construction of a large expanse of company housing, dubbed "Townsite", southeast of the factory. By this time, there were four separate communities in the region - from east to west, Townsite; Humbermouth, where the railroad depot was situated; Humber West, the commercial centre that grew into present-day downtown Corner Brook; and Curling, a small fishing town hugging the south shore of the Humber Arm - which amalgamated in 1956 into the present-day city of Corner Brook.
Le prochain siècle a connu une croissance exponentielle à Corner Brook, avec l'industrie forestière renforcée significativement en 1900 par l'extension du Chemin de fer de Terre-Neuve à la ville, et de nouveau et définitivement lorsque la grande usine de la International Paper Company of Newfoundland (la Compagnie internationale de papier de Terre-Neuve, actuellement la Compagnie de pâts et papiers de Corner Brook) a été érigée à l'embouchure du fleuve Humber en 1925. L'usine n'a tardé pas à dominer l'économie locale: elle était la propriétaire de plus de 1,5 millions d'hectares de forêts terre-neuviens et était responsable de la construction d'une grande étendue de logements corporatifs, appelé «Townsite», au sud-est de l'usine. À cette époque, il y avait quatre communautés distinctes dans la région - d'est en ouest, Townsite; Humbermouth, où la gare du chemin de fer était située; Humber West, le quartier marchand qui a grandi à être le centre-ville actuel de Corner Brook; et Curling, un petit village de pêcheurs le long de la rive sud du bras Humber - qui se sont fusionnées en 1956 dans la ville actuelle de Corner Brook.
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