St. John’s Convention Centre Expansion
Opening in the fall of 2016, the expanded St. John’s Convention Centre will make our city – already a great host city – an even better one. This $45 million expansion will double the capacity of the Convention Centre to 45, 000 square feet of divisible meeting space, which means even more people can come here to share in the magic of our one-of-a-kind location.
It's a Fact!
- Newfoundland is the world's sixteenth largest island, and the area of Labrador is over twice that of Newfoundland's.
- Water Street is the oldest street in North America!
- Newfoundland is home to some of the world's largest and most accessible seabird colonies in North America.
- In 1919 a British aircraft departed from Lester's Field, in what is now the west central part of the city, and landed in Clifden, Ireland, less than 17 hours later, marking the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Newfoundland has its own time zone - 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. This is where the sun first rises in North America.
