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Footnotes: Chapter II

  1. J.P. Howley, "Mining of Newfoundland", Canadian Mining Review, vol. 17 (1898), p. 127.
  2. Howley Papers, P.A.N.L. (P4/2/2), file 24/A8, 3.
  3. Harbour Grace Standard, 22 November 1879.
  4. In November 1876 the Notre Dame Mining Company leased the Burtons Pond mine to Dr. Henry Eales of London, who in 1878 shipped 1500 tons of copper ore from the site to Swansea.
  5. J. Stephens, "Water-Wheels of St. Croix", Port and Province, April 1938, p. 18. Hereafter cited as J. Stephens, "Water-Wheels".
  6. Ellershause became the present-day town of Ellershouse, located just south of Windsor, Nova Scotia.
  7. Evening Telegram, 24 March 1881.
  8. Local History of Ellershouse, by school students, 1929, Halifax Archives. Hereafter cited as Ellershouse.
  9. M. Harvey, Across Newfoundland with the Governor, p. 82.
  10. J.R. Smallwood, ed., The Book of Newfoundland, vol. III, p. 514.
  11. M. Harvey, Across Newfoundland with the Governor, p. 85.
  12. In December 1878, the Betts Cove Mining Company reorganized into the Betts Cove Mining Company Limited. The new firm possessed $1 million in capital shares and was managed by Ellershausen, who received one-half per cent of the profits in return.
  13. J. Stephens, "Water-Wheels", p. 19.
  14. The exact nature of Ellershausen's previous involvement with The Newfoundland Consolidated Copper Mining Company directors is unclear. He undoubtedly knew the company secretary, Archibald Brand, for the man married one of the Ellershausen's daughters two months before the transaction.
  15. In 1900 and 1905 respectively, the Newfoundland Copper Concentrating Company and the Newfoundland Exploration Syndicate attempted without success to revive the old Betts Cove workings.
  16. M. Harvey, Across Newfoundland with the Governor, p. 91.
  17. Two men associated with the Newfoundland Railway Company and the Consolidated Mining Company came to grief in later years. C.X. Hobbs, vice-president of the railway company, was killed in a duel in Transvaal on 16 March 1887; and Erastus Wiman, president of the mining company, was arrested on multiple charges of forgery on 23 February.
  18. Evening Telegram, 20 June 1881.
  19. J. Hiller, A History of Newfoundland, 1874-1901, p. 84.
  20. Whiteway Papers, C.N.S.
  21. Whiteway Papers, telegrams and letters dated 10 April, 13 May, 15 May, 18 May, 20 May, 29 May, 9 June, 20 June; 1882.
  22. O.C. Herfindahl, Copper Costs and Prices: 1870-1957, pp. 73-75.
  23. Evening Mercury, 3 September 1889.
  24. J. Lumsden, The Skipper Parson in the Bays and Barrens of Newfoundland, pp. 185-186.
  25. Western Star, 10 September 1901.
  26. M. Harvey, Across Newfoundland with the Governor, p. 24.
  27. Ellershouse.
  28. The Newfoundland Copper Company also worked a copper prospect discovered in 1880 at Lady Pond near the Little Bay mine. Between 1898 and 1899, the company transported about 1000 tons of Lady Pond ore along a road to Little Bay and shipped the ore to Britain.
  29. H. Mott, Newfoundland Men, p. 13.
  30. Whiteway Papers, letters dated 7 July, 22 July; 1882.
  31. J. Stephens, "Water-Wheels", p. 18.
  32. Whiteway Papers, telegram dated February 1882?
  33. Ibid.
  34. Matheson and Company to J.R. Stewart, 16 November 1893, private collection of Frederick J. Stewart (hereafter cited as Stewart Papers).
  35. Saint Croix Courier, 22 July 1920.
  36. B.R. Constable to Archives, undated, Bowen Papers, P.A.N.L. (P5/14).
  37. Daniel McCuish replaced his lost limb with a wooden substitute which he used, so it is said, to pound upon tables or walls when displeased.
  38. Evening Telegram, 13 February 1906.
  39. Evening Telegram, 17 May 1906.
  40. Newfoundland and Labrador Registry of Deeds, vol. 41, fol. 276.
  41. Yet another of Obediah's brothers, Alexander Hodder, also became involved in mining. He staked a copper prospect at Fleur de Lys, and around 1925 exported 80 barrels of ore from the site. The mine closed after this date.
  42. G.S.N., 1881-1909, p. 405.
  43. Although most of this production went to Swansea and the United States, two unusual shipments occurred in 1876 and 1877: 350 tons and 2580 tons of copper ore bound for France.
  44. Memorandum of G.M. Johnson, 5 October 1872, P.A.N.L. (GN1/3A/1872).
  45. J.H.A., 1891, p. 184.
  46. G.V. Douglas et al., "Copper Deposits of Newfoundland", p. 9.
  47. The Geological Survey of Newfoundland remained nominally in existence until Howley's death on 1 January 1918, but he made his last geological report in 1913.

Abbreviations Used

P.A.N.L. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador; notation in brackets after P.A.N.L. refers to call number used by Provincial Archives.

C.N.S. Centre for Newfoundland and Studies; on campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.

D.M.E. Department of Mines and Energy, Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; refers to reports found in files of that Department.

J.H.A. Newfoundland Journal of the House of Assembly; found in Centre for Newfoundland Studies.