Matching Articles"St. John's" (Total 4)

  • The Battery lies under the slopes of Signal Hill in St. John's. Evidence indicates that rockfall is frequent in this area...
  • Landslides are the downslope movement of unconsolidated material under the influence of gravity.
  • Newfoundland did not receive official colonial status until 1825, when the British government appointed the first civil governor, Sir Thomas Cochrane.
  • Civil governors represented the authority of the crown in Newfoundland and Labrador and upheld the colony's Constitution.