Backgrounder - Clarenville - Bonavista

Regional Profile1
Number of Communities: 89, including Lethbridge, Plate Cove West, Bonavista, Port Rexton, Clarenville, Hickman's Harbour, Sunnyside, Chapel Arm, Southern Harbour and Come By Chance

Population: 29,605 in 2001 (12,845 in the Smith Sound-Random Island and Isthmus of Avalon areas combined)

Top Three Industries by Employment Level, 2000: Manufacturing, Agriculture/Fishing/Forestry/ Hunting, and Retail Trade

Total Number of Businesses 2003: 1,023 businesses, with the top three industries being Retail Trade, Health Care and Social Assistance, and Construction

Strategic Sectors
Regional Priority Sectors: Agrifoods and Fisheries, Tourism, Energy, and Manufacturing

Industrial Diversification Opportunities - Examples
Agrifoods and Fisheries:

  • Marketing the Lethbridge and Area Horticulture Co-operative Cold Storage/Processing Facility (trends toward food safety and traceability make such a facility strategic)

  • Brand development for locally grown vegetables throughout region

  • Cooperative marketing of locally produced dairy, fruit, and root crops

  • Value-added secondary processing and new product development of seal, shellfish and underutilized species throughout the region

  • Potential aquaculture site development inventory

  • Cod aquaculture development including grow-out and R&D opportunities

  • Fur breeding

Tourism:

  • Cooperative marketing for the Discovery Trail

  • Tourism infrastructure development and enhancement in key cluster areas

  • Shoal Harbour tourism enhancement initiative

  • Continued site development of the Coaker property in Port Union

  • Investigate the concept of a Centre of Excellence for Tourism Culture and Heritage Training at the College of the North Atlantic in Bonavista

  • Development of shoulder season and winter tourism packaging opportunities anchored by White Hills Alpine and Nordic Ski facilities and the groomed East Coast Snowmobile Trail

Energy:

  • Promotion of the Whiffen Head Transshipment Facility

  • Promotion and utilization of the Bull Arm Fabrication Site

Manufacturing:

  • Establishment of a business network for small-scale manufacturers in the region

  • Utilization of innovative approach to human resource development at the firm level through application of Bridging the Gap concept

1 Source: Community Accounts


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