Livability
MoneySense Best Places to Live
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
3 editions · 2015–2018
#385
Latest · 2018 · of 415
Newfoundland and Labrador
Grand Falls-Windsor
Company town at the falls
Grand Falls-Windsor in brief
Grand Falls-Windsor sits on the Exploits River in central Newfoundland. Lieutenant John Cartwright named the waterfall Grand Falls in 1768, but the land stayed quiet until the railway and newsprint money arrived.
In 1905 Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe) founded Grand Falls as a Garden City-style company town to secure paper for his newspapers. Windsor grew beside it, and the two amalgamated in 1991. The Exploits Valley Salmon Festival still marks summer on the river that started it all.
Drawn from Wikipedia.
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Grand Falls-Windsor is a town located in the central region of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with a population of 13,853 at the 2021 census.
The town is the largest in the central region, the sixth largest in the province, and is home to the annual Exploits Valley Salmon Festival.
Grand Falls-Windsor was incorporated in 1991, when the two former towns of Grand Falls and Windsor amalgamated.
