Its population shrinking, Newfoundland and Labrador aims to lure back diaspora
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Bill Hodder says he would leave Calgary to move back to Newfoundland and Labrador “in a heartbeat.”
He loved growing up in Churchill Falls, the small company town of about 650 people that runs the Labrador hydroelectric plant on the upper Churchill River.
His father, sister and many of his cousins now live in St. John’s.
“Home is where your family is,” said Hodder, 40. “If a job was there, it’d be no question we’d move back home.”