Welcome to Economic Zone 9

The Long Range RED Board is operated by a volunteer board of directors, an Executive Director, and an Executive Assistant. Throughout the year, additional support staff is provided through federally and provincially funded programs and through the work placements from the region's post-secondary educational institutions.

The staff works closely with the local development agencies, government and the private sector, to identify opportunities in the Zone 9. The zone encompasses 51 communities from from the South West Coast to Port au Port Peninsula all the way to Highlands.

Ramea/Francois/Grey River

Ramea is an island community of one thousand two hundred and fifty (1,250) located six (6) kilometres off the south west coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It is located on one of a group of islands containing ancient granite rock formations similar to those in northeastern Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The people who settled the islands early in the nineteenth century originally established several small independent communities on the islands. In the early 1940's, all inhabitant click here for more...