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Bishop's Falls, Nfld, Town, pop 3688 (2001c), 4048 (1996c), 4232 (1991c), area 28.11 km2, inc 1961, is situated on the EXPLOITS R in central Newfoundland. The waterfalls, for which the community is named, were so designated after they were visited by Bishop John INGLIS in the 1820s. It was settled by 1900 and a pulp mill and an electric-generating station were operating there by 1911. A decade later when the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co obtained the timber rights for their paper mill in GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR 15 km upstream, a flume was built through which local pulp was pumped (until 1952) to be manufactured into newsprint. From the early 1920s and through the next 5 decades Bishop's Falls was a principal railway depot.
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