Why isn't the interior of Newfoundland more populated?

Thanks Quora User for the A2A. This is a map of areas Central Health services in Central Newfoundland. read more

Increasing our population for the sake of simply using more of our resources isn't on its own a great argument. And there's no point in developing an area that nobody particularly wants to move to. So we don't. read more

Newfoundland was organised as a colony in 1825, was self-governing from 1855–1934, and held dominion status from 1907–1949 (see Dominion of Newfoundland). In late 1948, the population of the colony voted 52.3% to 47.7% in favour of joining Canada as a province. read more

To give you an idea of how sparsely populated Australia is: of the 200+ countries researched by the World Bank on population density, only Mongolia with 2 people per sq. km. of land has a population density that is less than Australia's on 3. read more