An Ontario-based aerospace startup says it wants to create Canada's first ever commercial spaceport, and believes the Newfoundland community of St. Lawrence is the perfect place to access the final frontier.

Nordspace, launched in 2022 by CEO Rahul Goel, touts itself as building the road to space in Canada. Goel told CBC News that Canada lacks an operational spaceport, unlike other G7 countries, and his company wants to build the first.

After searching from coast to coast, the company has chosen St. Lawrence as its ideal launching point.

"When we visited Newfoundland, we fell in love with the province, the people, the governments and everything else going on there," Goel said in a recent interview. "[We] ended up settling on St. Lawrence because it's perfectly positioned in terms of ach

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