• The Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (NOFU) was a civilian unit composed of skilled forestry workers who came from Newfoundland to Scotland to support...
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    2008-11-13. Pike family Guelph, Ontario (June 16, 2007). "Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit in Scotland 1939-1945 WWII". Archived from the original on...
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    send forestry workers, Newfoundland sent a larger number of workers in the form of the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. Five members of the unit based...
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    contingent of Newfoundlanders to go overseas, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. As a result, and taking into account service in the Newfoundland Militia...
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  • Brigade Group. Predecessor units trace their origins to 1795, and since 1949 Royal Newfoundland Regiment has been a unit of the Canadian Army. During...
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    November 1945. Also, Newfoundland sent over three thousand skilled foresters to Scotland in the form of the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. The NOFU helped...
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    British Imperial Forces, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit, the Merchant Navy and the Newfoundland Regiment, or any other unit or organization prescribed...
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    age of 60 Bela went to Scotland as a blacksmith with the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit. He returned to Heart’s Content at the end of the war and...
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    was a castle of the Clan Mackenzie. During the war, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit had a sawmill and camp named Fairburn nearby, at Aultgowrie...
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  • Study of the Experiences of the British Honduran Forestry Unit and the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (PDF). Inverness: University of the Highlands...
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    with 6,240 men joining the Newfoundland Regiment for overseas duty, 1,966 joining the Royal Navy, 491 joined the Forestry Corps (which did lumberjack...
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    Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical...
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  • ambulance units, 23 general and stationary hospitals, and many other medical, dental, forestry, labour, tunnelling, cyclist, and service units. Two tank...
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    sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland. No further European exploration occurred until 1497, when seafarer John...
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  • Jersey in 1815; and most of the modern electric grid.[citation needed] In Newfoundland, Robert Gillespie Reid contracted to operate the railways for fifty years...
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    province shares land borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal...
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  • Police Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-British Columbia Ontario Provincial Police Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Sûreté du Québec Alberta Sheriffs...
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  • Algonquin Regiment (Northern Pioneers) (category Military units and formations of Ontario)
    their first draft for overseas enforcements on 14 January 1942. In February 1942, the regiment was transferred to Newfoundland and assigned protection...
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    have a policing role. Every province in Canada, with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador, downloads the responsibility for local policing onto municipalities...
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    territories. The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level...
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  • 213th Flight Unit THJY Russia State Airline CHD 223rd Flight Unit CHKALOVSK-AVIA Russia State Airline TTF 224th Flight Unit CARGO UNIT Russia State Airline...
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    Duarte. ISBN 9722709402. OCLC 43397222. "The Portuguese Explorers: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage". Heritage.nf.ca. Archived from the original on...
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  • Civil Defence, Newfoundland. Neil MacLellan, Officer-in-charge of the Forestry Division, Department of Natural Resources, Newfoundland. Florence Mary...
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  • Knight, Royal Newfoundland Regiment Maj. Liamont Patterson Royal Newfoundland Regiment Maj. Henry A. Timewell, Overseas Forces, Royal Newfoundland Regiment...
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    Committee of the Privy Council, which ruled in favour of the Dominion of Newfoundland. The offshore islands to the west and north of Quebec remained part of...
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    known as Gander International Airport built in 1936 in the Dominion of Newfoundland was leased by the UK to Canada for 99 years because of its urgent need...
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    also requires bee pollination, and some beekeepers service this need. Forestry plays a vital role in Alberta's economy, providing over 15,000 jobs and...
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  • Assembly (MNAs) in Quebec; and Members of the House of Assembly (MHAs) in Newfoundland and Labrador. First female elected in Canada: Maria Grant is the first...
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  • places in the whole overseas region of Martinique Saint Pierre and Miquelon Main cities and tourist places in the whole overseas region of Saint Pierre...
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    Brunswick; on the south wall lilies, maple leaves, and Tudor roses for Newfoundland and Labrador, pine cones, oak leaves, and acorns for Nunavut, and maple...
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