Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 5)

  • The island of Newfoundland contains 15 million acres of forest, of which more than nine million acres are considered productive.
  • Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Biography of Agnes Marion Ayre (1890-1940).
  • Biography of the explorer, Captain Robert (Bob) Bartlett, who skippered some of the most famous and controversial expeditions to the Arctic.
  • About the statue, The Veiled Virgin, created by renowned Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza.