The unprecedented prosperity of the early 19th century contributed to an extraordinary increase in immigration to Newfoundland

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.

Long before the suffrage movement, women's groups in Newfoundland and Labrador worked for social change and community improvement.