Bett's Cove, Notre Dame Bay, n.d.

The discovery of copper deposits in places such as Bett's Cove sparked an interest in land-based resources, and in turn stimulated discussion of building a railway across the island.

Illustration by Percival Skelton. From Joseph Hatton and M. Harvey, Newfoundland, the Oldest British Colony (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883) 164.