Grand Falls / Windsor
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Grand Falls and Windsor (previously Windsor Station) existed as
independent entities until they were amalgamated into their current
hyphenated status in 1991.
Grand Falls was built in the early 1900s as a "company town" around
forestry and the pulp and paper industry, by British proprietor of
the Daily Mail Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe through
his Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Limited. The community
was built based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard and the Garden
city movement. In the early days of the community, much temporary
housing of tarpaper was constructed to house the workers and their
families. The company was responsible for all town activities until
1961, when the first municipal council was elected. The mill is
still in operation and is now owned by Abitibi-Consolidated. The
town has since grown to become one of the largest communities in
Newfoundland, and the second largest outside of the Avalon
Peninsula.
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