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Footnotes: Chapter V
- G.H. Case, "To Iron Ore", in M.F. Harrington, ed., Poems of Newfoundland, p. 5.
- C.R. Fay, Life and Labour in Newfoundland, p. 215.
- L.A. Anspach, A History of the Island of Newfoundland, p. 368.
- J.B. Jukes, Excursions, vol. II, p. 276.
- C.R. Fay, Life and Labour in Newfoundland, pp. 217-218.
- Were it not for a Captain Murphy, the Bell Island iron deposits might have remained
undeveloped for many more years. On 24 November 1881, Murphy in the Scythia
rescued all five Butlers from drowning when their boat, the May, foundered while en
route to New Bay.
- Opinion written upon the offer of Messrs. Shirran and Pippy by B. Colvin, 12 April 1893,
Butler Family Papers, P.A.N.L. (P6/B/62).
- R.E. and A.R. Chambers, "Sinking of Wabana Submarine Slopes", Canadian Mining
Journal, vol. 30 (1909), p. 110.
- E.R. Seary, Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland, p. 26.
- In 1900, the Nova Scotia Steel Company Limited reorganized into the Nova Scotia Steel
and Coal Company Limited, also known as the "Scotia".
- D.A. Frank, Coal Masters and Coal Miners: 1922 Strike and the Roots of Class Conflict
in the Cape Breton Coal Industry, pp. 11-13. Hereafter cited as D.A. Frank, Coal
Masters.
- The Dominion company obtained the then-unrecognized Upper Bed inadvertently. In
1899, the Middle Bed was assumed to be the higher of two beds called the Upper and
Lower Beds (actually the Middle and Lower Beds). The real Upper Bed was recognized
only later.
- Details of the 1899 strike - and much of the other data given here on the early days of
Bell Island's mine - come from Addison Bown's Newspaper History of Bell Island, an
exhaustive and invaluable compilation.
- J.D. Green, Miners Union on Bell Island, p. 13.
- P.F. Neary, "Wabana You're a Corker", p. 57.
- Ibid., p. 57.
- D. Schwartzman, Mergers in the Nova Scotia Coal Fields: A History of the Dominion
Coal Company, 1893-1940, chaps. I-V.
- In April 1910 the Dominion Iron and Steel Company and the Dominion Coal Company
amalgamated into a holding company called the Dominion Steel Corporation.
- D.A. Frank, Coal Masters, pp. 74-75.
- House of Assembly Proceedings, 1926, pp. 641-649.
- A. Bown, Newspaper History of Bell Island, vol. II, p. 21.
- Newfoundland Royal Commission 1933 Report, pp. 158-160.
- A Bown, The Ore-Boat Sinkings at Bell Island in 1942.
- In 1949, DOSCO formed a subsidiary, Dominion Wabana Ore Ltd., to handle its
burgeoning Wabana mines.
- D.W. Mercer, Bell Island, An Economic Analysis, p. 26.
- Ibid., p. 27.
- One report suggests that John Winsor of Conception Bay found the Workington iron
deposit. Most evidence, however, points to Andrew Colford as being the true discoverer.
- H.M. Blewitt, The Workington Mining Property, undated, D.M.E., p. 2.
- In 1907, Robert Chambers leased another iron ore property at Steel Mountain in St.
George's Bay from a Sandy Point merchant, Charles Bishop. Robert Chambers was not
hampered by French interference, as had been former lessees of the Bishop iron prospect,
but dropped the lease after discovering that its ore contained too much titanium for his
purposes.
- Evening Telegram, 26 November 1965.
- Quarrying activities have since destroyed the cove's club-like pattern.
- Petition copied from replica of the document hanging on wall of the King of Clubs in
Aguathuna.
- Bowaters used limestone from the Junction quarry near Corner Brook from 1925 to 1942,
and from the Dormston quarry near Corner Brook from 1943 to 1957; after that date the
company began to buy Aguathuna limestone.
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.
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