Place:Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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NameStephenville
TypeCommunity
Coordinates48.55°N 58.567°W
Located inNewfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Stephenville (Canada 2016 Census population 6,623) is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.

The town functions as a local service centre for the southwestern part of the island, serving a direct population of 35,000 people from surrounding areas and over 100,000 people along the entire southwestern coast of the island.

The primary employer in the town was a paper mill, which closed in 2005.

Stephenville has a modern 40-bed hospital (built in 2003), schools, stores, movie theater, banks, and an International Airport (Stephenville International Airport, CYJT), year round ice free sea port (Port Harmon), and government institutions. The provincial community college system, College of the North Atlantic, is headquartered in Stephenville and maintains a campus there for students from the southwestern region of the island. The Newfoundland and Labrador Public Library system is also headquartered in Stephenville. A provincial minimum/medium security facility was established in 1978 and provides core programs for federal and provincial offenders.

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