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A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF SELECTED NEWFOUNDLAND PROVINCIAL CAMPING PARKS

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A Socio-Econ.omic Study of Selected Newfoundland Provincial

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Because of the incre~si~g demands. being made on the

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The thesis commences with a brief demographic and economic

histo~r. of Newfoundland and is followed by an historical acqount

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Chapter I '- Introduction

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Justification

D~ographi~ and ·Economic History Historical Development

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