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Corner Brook city (1991 pop. 22,410), W Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on the Humber River. It is Newfoundland's second largest city and has a large pulp and paper mill. Other industries include lumbering, salmon fishing, and quarrying. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College is there. Nearby is Gros Morne National Park.

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Corner Brook, Newfoundland/Canada Lying at the mouth of the Hudson River, it was founded in 1955 and named after a local brook.

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