NAIN, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, Jan. 22 /CNW Telbec/ - The Honourable
Stéphane Dion, Minister of the Environment, Honourable Danny Williams, Premier
of Newfoundland and Labrador, Honourable Tom Osborne, provincial Minister of
Environment and Conservation, and William Andersen III, President of the
Labrador Inuit Association (LIA), today signed two agreements that set the
stage for Canada's 42nd national park - and the first ever in Labrador - to be
officially established later this year.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2005/22/c5976.html

Ottawa (January 21, 2005) – The advent of the new Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve, in northern Labrador, is “bright and wonderful news” for wildlife and for the people of northern Labrador, says Nature Canada, a national conservation organization.
http://www.cnf.ca/newsroom/jan_21_05.html

ST. JOHN'S — The boundaries of the new national park for Northern Labrador have been altered to help facilitate what could be a mining development.
http://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nf-torngat-mining-20050120

ST. JOHN'S — An environmental group says a proposed golf-course expansion could mean a bleak future for Frenchman's Cove Provincial Park.
http://stjohns.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nf-golf-park-20050221

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