The industrialization of Newfoundland and Labrador's fisheries during the late 20th century changed the way people in the province worked and lived.

With the construction of the railway, workers began to leave their coastal homes to find employment at new mines and mills in the island's interior.

Letter to John Kirke, from Charles Hill, dated September 12, 1661, and dealing with planters, houses, stores, cod, and fisheries

Letter to George Calvert to Daniel Powell, dated July 28, 1622

Overview of the presence of the Kirkes in Newfoundland, including the granting of the island and the legal battles between the Kirkes and the Calverts.

Information about initial settlement schemes for Newfoundland.

Letter to Sir George Calvert (later Lord Baltimore) from Edward Winne, dated August 26, 1621.

Letter to Sir George Calvert (later Lord Baltimore), from Edward Winne, dated August 28, 1621, and dealing with planters, gardens, and women.

Letter to George Calvert from Edward Wynne, dated August 17, 1622.

Letter to George Calvert from Edward Wynne, July 28, 1622, dealing with planters, house, stores, gardens, fortifications, forests, and lumber.

Much of our knowledge of daily life in outport Newfoundland in the late 18th and early 19th century comes from the pens of visitors. They were typically missionaries, explorers, naturalists, and geologists whose work brought them to outlying communities not often visited by outsiders or even the local government.

During the 1650s, French Basque fishermen began to overwinter in Placentia Bay, a practice that was encouraged when the French crown decided to sponsor a colony.

The role of the Garrison in Newfoundland between the years 1815 and 1870.

Letter to King Charles I from Sir George Calvert, August 19, 1629, dealing with planters, religion, the Puritan Church, weather, health, and ships

Sir Henry Cary became Viscount Falkland in 1620 after William Vaughan sold him the narrow strip of land south of Aquaforte.

Deposition of John Cull, taken at Totnes, before commissioners appointed by the Privy Council, on November 27, 1667.

The most visible sign of the transformation from fishery to colony was the increase in Newfoundland's permanent population.

Letter to W. P. from Nicholas Hoskins, dated August 18, 1622, and dealing with planters, wildlife, forest, weather, food, gardens, and health.

Overview of the beginnings of the colony of Avalon, established by Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore.

Extract from a letter to John Winthrop, Jr. from Rev. Richard Blinman, dated August 22, 1659, and dealing with religion, the Puritan Church, cod, fisheries, ships, and servants.