Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 23)

  • Electrifying Labrador
    Hamilton River was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hydro electric projects.
  • Forest Industries
    The island of Newfoundland contains 15 million acres of forest, of which more than nine million acres are considered productive.
  • Industrialization and Diversification
    For the first three hundred years after European settlement, the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador depended almost solely on the fisheries
  • Work and Labour
    A brief history of work and labour, both paid and unpaid, in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Mining in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Mining has played an important if sporadic role in the economic, social, and cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Population Distribution and Land-Based Industries
    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.
  • Social and Economic Impacts
    The growth of land-based industries during the first half of the 20th century helped diversify Newfoundland and Labrador's economy into sectors other than the fishery.
  • Transportation and Land-Based Industries
    Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Campaign for Representative Government
    The process through which Newfoundland acquired a local legislature in 1832 has long been misunderstood.
  • Carson and Morris
    The platforms of William Carson and Patrick Morris, two of the most important leaders of the reform movement in Newfoundland
  • Civil Governors
    Civil governors represented the authority of the crown in Newfoundland and Labrador and upheld the colony's Constitution.
  • Decline of Naval Government
    Newfoundland and Labrador experienced tremendous social and economic changes during the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
  • Economic Changes, 1815-1832
    The reform era was a time of economic hardship. The end of the Napoleonic Wars plunged the colony into an economic depression lasting for years.
  • Electoral Districts and the Vote
    Citizens on the island of Newfoundland won the right to vote and run for political office in 1832, when Britain granted the colony representative government.
  • Lundrigan-Butler Affair
    The events surrounding the Lundrigan-Butler affair, perhaps the most celeberated legal case in Newfoundland and Labrador history, where two fisherman were publically whipped for outstanding debts to a local merchant.
  • Reform Era, 1815-1832
    The period between 1815 and 1832 represents a watershed in the history of government and politics in Newfoundland.
  • Reform Movement
    The reform movement gained momentum during the early-19th century, a time of tremendous social, economic, and political change in the colony.
  • Religion and Politics, 1832-1855
    Religion played an influential role in Newfoundland politics during the period of representative government.
  • Representative Government, 1832-1855
    This article is about the Representative Government system in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1832-1855.
  • Company Towns: A look at Buchans and Grand Falls-Windsor
    The examination of two company towns, Buchans and Grand Falls-Windsor. Company towns are towns which were based exlusively upon one industry.

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