Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 201)

  • Amateur Theatre Tradition: Theatre companies, concerts, carnivals, festivals, and the Arts and Culture Centre.
  • Biography of writer Bertille Tobin
  • Biography of the writer, Edwin John Pratt, also known as E. J. Pratt
  • An account of the life of Georgina Ann Stirling (1866-1935), Newfoundland's first professional opera singer.
  • An introduction to the Isaac Newell (1917-1977) collection containing 161 works by and about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his circle.
  • A sketch of the life of John Murray Anderson (1886-1954), Broadway producer and Hollywood director.
  • Biography of entertainer Johnny Burke
  • Among the earliest records of dance classes in Newfoundland and Labrador are newspaper advertisements for social dance classes in St. John's.
  • The history of theatre in Newfoundland and Labrador is long and varied.
  • The commercial spring seal hunt was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most dangerous and demanding industries in the 19th century.
  • The salt-cod fishery was a mainstay of Newfoundland and Labrador's economy throughout the 19th century.
  • As seals became more difficult to harvest, Newfoundland outfitters turned first to larger sailing vessels and then to wooden-hulled steamers.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's climate and soil have not been conducive to agriculture, but outport isolation and poor fishery incomes have made farming crucial.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's physical environment greatly influenced the ways settlers made a living during the 19th century. The richness of marine resources encouraged a pattern of coastal settlement and made the cod and seal fisheries central to local economies. In contrast, the relative scarcity of good soils and other terrestrial resources made large-scale farming operations impractical and discouraged year-round habitation of interior spaces.
  • Throughout the nineteenth century, Newfoundland and Labrador's economy centred on its ability to export goods to foreign buyers.
  • The origin of what is today referred to as traditional society in Newfoundland and Labrador may be traced to a way of life that developed around the inshore fishery in the late 19th century outport.
  • For the first three hundred years after European settlement, the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador depended almost solely on the fisheries
  • An informal economy is one in which people provide for their own needs by engaging in a variety of noncommercial activities
  • Until well into the 20th century, Newfoundland's primary economic activity was in the fisheries.
  • A brief history of work and labour, both paid and unpaid, in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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