Economy
Work in the region traditionally focused on the abundant natural resources. Inshore fishing, farming, and logging were still the chief source of employment for most of the inhabitants well into the 20th century. The lumber industry, however, faded away with the development of Terra Nova National Park in the 1950s. Happy Adventure and Salvage are still sites of operational fishplants (2005).
Being adjacent to Terra Nova National Park and having the beautiful sandy beaches the Eastport Peninsula has become one of Newfoundland's most popular tourist destinations. The peninsula is home to motels, cottages, campgrounds, bed & breakfasts and inns.The Eastport Peninsula is part of The Road to The Beaches tourism region.
The area is also famed for a thriving art community rich with community theatre, concerts and gallery exhibitions. The peninsula is home to the annual Winterset in Summer Literary Festival.
This is just to inform you that there is also an annual SeaFest festival on Eastport beach, usually held on the last weekend in July or the first weekend in August.
- List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Burnside
- Eastport
- Happy Adventure
- Salvage
- Sandringham
- Sandy Cove
- St. Chad's
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Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.”
—Anthony, Sir Eden (1897–1977)