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The Newfoundland and Labrador Minister of Health annually appoints a six-person Board of Examiners from a panel of names submitted by the Council of the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland. The majority of the Board are registered nurses. The Board arranges the registration examinations twice a year, appoints the deputy examiners, submits the results to the schools of nursing, and publicly announces the names of successful candidates.

The Board of Trusts of the Newfoundland and Labrador Conference of the United Church of Canada is the agent to receive and administer trusts for the Conference. It allocates the income from these trusts according to the terms of the bequests and donations made to Conference and is empowered to make reasonable investment decisions at will.

Responsibility for trusts and investments was transferred to the United Church of Canada Conference Board of Trusts from the Methodist Board of Trusts at the time of Church Union.

Responsibility for the area covered by the Bonavista District of the Methodist Church of Canada was transferred to the Bonavista Presbytery of the United Church of Canada in 1925. It included Grand Falls Presbytery from 1928-1929 and had also assimilated parts of Wesleyville Presbytery by that time. In 1962 Bonavista Presbytery was merged with Burin Presbytery to form Bonavista-Burin Presbytery.

In 1962 Bonavista Presbytery was merged with Burin Presbytery to form Bonavista - Burin Presbytery. In 1968 the two areas were divided once more. The area once covered by Burin Presbytery was joined with St. John's and Carbonear Presbyteries to form the Avalon Presbytery, while the old Bonavista Presbytery was joined with Twillingate Presbytery and parts of Grand Falls Presbytery to form Terra Nova Presbytery.

George Bond (1850-1933), Methodist minister and writer, was born on 1 July 1850 in St. John's, the eldest son of merchant John Bond and Elizabeth Roberts. His brother was Robert Bond, Prime Minister of Newfoundland (1900-1909). In 1881 Bond married Lucy Amelia Macpherson (185?-1903). They had five children: Herbert (1866-1910); Harry (1885-89); Elsie (1887-88); Fraser (1891-1965); Roberta (b. 1901- ). Bond died on 22 June 1933 in Halifax.

In 1869 Bond, who had received his early education in St. John's, decided to enter the Methodist ministry. He was accepted as a candidate in 1871, and studied for the ministry at Mount Allison Methodist College in Sackville, New Brunswick; he graduated in 1874. He was ordained into the Methodist ministry at George Street Methodist Church in St. John's on 26 June 1876.

Bond served in a number of Methodist circuits in Newfoundland: assistant minister at Gower Street Methodist Church, St. John's (1874-76); minister at Tilt Cove (1877); Fogo (1878-79); Trinity (1879-82). He returned to St. John's, with pastoral responsibilities for the following congregations: Cochrane Street (1883-84), Gower Street (1884-86), and George Street (1886-89). He was then posted in Grand Bank (1890-91). He also served the Newfoundland Conference in a number of administrative positions: Chairman of District, Journal Secretary, and member of the General Board of Missions. He was elected President of the Newfoundland Methodist Conference three times (1885, 1888, and 1919).

In 1891 Bond transferred to Nova Scotia. He served in Halifax at Grafton Methodist Church and Oxford Street Church, as well as at Canso. In 1895 he was appointed editor of The Wesleyan, a monthly church magazine published in Halifax. He held that post until 1902 when he moved to Toronto to become editor of the national church magazine, The Christian Guardian. He also served as President of the Nova Scotia Conference of the Methodist Church (1911-12). He twice served as a member of the Board of Regents of Mount Allison College (1893-1906; 1913-15), and was a frequent delegate to the Methodist Church's General Conference. He returned to Newfoundland in 1916 and served the Cochrane Street circuit until 1921, when he returned to Nova Scotia. Before leaving for Nova Scotia, he represented Newfoundland at the Ecumenical Conference held in London (1916).

While stationed in Nova Scotia, Bond spent a year (1907-8) in China and Japan studying the church's missionary work there. His visit took him up the Yangtze River where he saw first-hand the work of the Methodist missionaries. After his return to Halifax, he used what he had learned, together with photographs he had taken in China, to give public lectures on this facet of the church's work.

In addition to his clerical achievements, Bond was also a writer of fiction. In 1887 he published a novel, Skipper George Netman, the story of Newfoundland fishermen and their lives in the fictional outport of Caplin Bight. It had previously been serialized in The Canadian Methodist Magazine (1885) and was later republished in London by Charles H. Kelly (1900) and in Toronto by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (1911). His short story, "The Castaway of Fish Rock" appeared in The Methodist Monthly Greeting in June and July 1891. He wrote other stories which were not published and a number of articles on the Church's missionary work which appeared in various church publications.

Bond retired from the active ministry in 1923. He spent part of his retirement in Halifax, but also lived part of each year at the Grange, which he inherited after his brother's death in 1927. When Bond died, his body was brought back to St. John's for burial from Cochrane Street Methodist Church.

The Bonne Bay Parish is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. In 1980, the Parish was split into two separate parishes, Bonne Bay North Parish, and Bonne Bay South Parish.
Churches include:
Epiphany (Woody Point)
School Chapel (Baker's Brook) (? - 1979)
St. Simon (Trout River)
Good Shepherd (Norris Point)
St. Matthew (Rocky Harbour)
Resurrection (Birchy Head)
School Chapel (Wiltondale)

William Born (1844-1910), Catholic priest, was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, on 10 January 1844, the son of Mary (Doutney) and Valentine Born. He died at St. John's on 10 December 1910 and was buried in Belvedere Cemetery.

Born was educated in St. John's and completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Bonaventure's College. Born was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, on 18 August 1867, by Bishop John Thomas Mullock.

Rev. William Born served as a curate in Sacred Heart Parish, St. Kyran's, Placentia West, under Rev. James Walsh, parish priest. He was transferred to St. Patrick's Parish, Burin, where he served as curate under the pastorate of Rev. Richard O'Donnell, whom he later succeeded as parish priest. In 1882, Rev. Born was appointed by Bishop Thomas Joseph Power as parish priest of Holy Redeemer Parish, Trepassey. He also served as chairman of the Roman Catholic School Board for the Trepassey District, until the time of his transfer to St. John's. In September 1908 Rev. Born was named Dean of the Diocese of St. John's and Rector of St. Patrick's Parish, St. John's, with residence in the presbytery at Corpus Christi Parish, Kilbride.

Edmund Bourke (1756-1826), Catholic priest, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1756. He became a professed member of the Dominican Order of Preachers and studied for the priesthood in the convents of Corpo Santo, Lisbon, and St. Maria da Victoria, Batalha, Portugal. Bourke returned to Ireland circa 1782 as an ordained priest and ministered to the congregation of Waterford from 1784 to 1785.

In 1786, Rev. Bourke became the first regularly authorized missionary to come to Newfoundland under the leadership of Rev. James Louis O'Donel, Prefect Apostolic of the island. He was appointed to Placentia, where he served with distinction. His success in spreading Catholicism in the area brought him into conflict with Prince William Henry (later King William IV) when the prince visited that town. He also built a presbytery and a chapel at Placentia.

Michael Francis Howley, Bishop of St. John's, stated in his Ecclesiastical History of Newfoundland that Bourke left Newfoundland in 1798, the year of the Irish rebellion, and took up residence in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Howley felt that Bourke left because he was in some way implicated in the Irish rebellion and feared the vengeance of British authorities at Newfoundland. It is thought that he was a brother of Dr. Bourke, the first Bishop of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

While working in Halifax, Rev. Bourke experienced difficulties with the Irish in his congregation and with the trustees of the church. In the autumn of 1801, he returned to Cork, Ireland, where he worked from 1801 to 1816. In 1817, he accepted an appointment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and remained there until he died on 12 January 1826 at the age of 70.

Rev. Bourke was one of the three priests who signed the petition requesting the elevation of Rev. O'Donel to episcopal ranking. His surname appears alternately as Burke or Borke in archdiocesan archival papers.

The Reid Newfoundland Company and other financial backers, under the name of Newfoundland Power and Paper Company, began construction of the mill in Corner Brook in 1923 . with the first paper produced in 1925. A planned, industrial town quickly grew around the mill site. In 1927 the company was incorporated as the International Paper Company of Newfoundland Limited and was acquired by Bowater-Lloyd Corporation in 1938. The company became part of the Kruger organization in December of 1984.