Matching Articles"Reid Newfoundland Company" (Total 11)

  • Although the main line was itself a signal feat of engineering and political optimism, branch lines were also integral to the Newfoundland railway.
  • The Newfoundland railway impacted the province economically, socially, and politically.
  • The history of the railway: The construction period, the Reid family, the Government of Newfoundland, Canadian National Railways, and TerraTransport.
  • Operations of the Newfoundland railway and the types of equipment that was required.
  • It was anticipated from the first that the railway would transform Newfoundland and its society as a whole.
  • The Newfoundland railway operated for a little over a century. From 1882-97 the trains ran over completed portions of a projected trans-insular line.
  • Reid Descendants--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web
  • Robert Gillespie Reid and his descendants left an imprint on numerous aspects of Newfoundland business, politics and society.
  • Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...
  • In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'
  • Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.

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