Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador
| Paradise | |
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| Town | |
| Town of Paradise | |
At sunset
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 Location of Paradise (red) in the St. John's Metropolitan Area. |
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 Paradise
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| Coordinates: 47°32′N 52°52′W / 47.533°N 52.867°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Newfoundland and Labrador
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| Settled | late 19th century |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dan Bobbett |
| • MHA |
David Brazil Paul Davis Steve Kent |
| • MP | Nick Whalen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 29.24 km2 (11.29 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 21,389 |
| • Density | 730/km2 (1,900/sq mi) |
| Time zone | Newfoundland Time (UTC-3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | Newfoundland Daylight (UTC-2:30) |
| Area code(s) | 709 |
| Website | The Town of Paradise |
Paradise is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The town is a part of the St. John's Metropolitan Area and borders the City of St. John's, the City of Mount Pearl, the Town of Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, and the town of Conception Bay South. According to the 2011 Canadian census the population of Paradise is 17,695, after recording a 41% increase in population over five years.
While parts of Paradise have been inhabited since the late nineteenth-century, its growth only took off in the 1960s and 1970s as a "bedroom community" of nearby St. John's. It has grown at a rapid pace since. In the early 1990s, the Town of Paradise was amalgamated with the Town of St. Thomas. Other developed areas which had previously been administered by the St. John's Metropolitan Board, an agency of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, were also amalgamated with Paradise. These areas are Three Island Pond, Topsail Pond, Elizabeth Park, and Evergreen Village. Recently, Paradise has been identified by Statistics Canada as the fastest-growing municipality in Atlantic Canada.
Precambrian-era bedrock underlies the town, with a belt of volcanic rock along the coast and clastic sedimentary rock inland. The soil is for the most part a stony loam podzol mapped as Cochrane series. Peat is common in poorly drained areas.
The town crest of Paradise was created by a former town council member and one time mayor, "Black" Arch Janes in 1986. He also provided an explanation of what each element of the crest represented.
This information was collected from the official town website, see below.
The War memorial located at the town hall was also designed by Arch Janes before his death in 1987.
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