Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 96)

  • Mainline Construction, 1881-1897
    After rejecting Confederation with Canada in 1869, railway construction was championed in Newfoundland as the 'work of a country.'
  • Napoleonic Wars and the Economy
    The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were a time of social upheaval in Europe, but brought economic prosperity to Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Railway: The Branch Lines
    Although the main line was itself a signal feat of engineering and political optimism, branch lines were also integral to the Newfoundland railway.
  • Impact of the Newfoundland Railway
    The Newfoundland railway impacted the province economically, socially, and politically.
  • Narrative of the Newfoundland Railway
    The history of the railway: The construction period, the Reid family, the Government of Newfoundland, Canadian National Railways, and TerraTransport.
  • Railway Operations and Equipment
    Operations of the Newfoundland railway and the types of equipment that was required.
  • The Railway and Newfoundland Society
    It was anticipated from the first that the railway would transform Newfoundland and its society as a whole.
  • Telegraphy in Newfoundland and Labrador
    The first telegraph system in Newfoundland was established as part and parcel of a scheme to land a trans-atlantic telegraph cable in Newfoundland.
  • Newfoundland Railway
    The Newfoundland railway operated for a little over a century. From 1882-97 the trains ran over completed portions of a projected trans-insular line.
  • Reid Descendants
    Reid Descendants--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web
  • The Reid Family
    Robert Gillespie Reid and his descendants left an imprint on numerous aspects of Newfoundland business, politics and society.
  • The Reid Lands
    Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...
  • The Reid Newfoundland Company
    In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'
  • Robert Gillespie Reid
    Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.
  • The Sailing Seal Fishery
    The first sealing vessels from St. John's sailed to the ice in 1793. Following their successful expedition, the sailing seal fishery expanded rapidly.
  • 19th Century Salt Fish Markets, 1793-1850s
    From the arrival of Europeans until the 20th century, Newfoundland was valued mainly for its rich marine resources, especially cod.
  • 19th Century Salt Fish Markets, 1850-1914
    The first half of the nineteenth century saw changes in the markets for Newfoundland salt fish.
  • The Newfoundland and Labrador Seal Fishery
    The bulk of seals taken annually in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the eastern coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador are Greenland seals, or harps.
  • 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.
  • The Truck System
    Newfoundland and Labrador's outport economy depended not on cash, but on merchant credit for much of the 19th century.

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