Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 422)

  • 19th Century Trade
    Throughout the nineteenth century, Newfoundland and Labrador's economy centred on its ability to export goods to foreign buyers.
  • Forest Industries
    The island of Newfoundland contains 15 million acres of forest, of which more than nine million acres are considered productive.
  • The Household Economy in Newfoundland and Labrador Outports
    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.
  • Industrialization and Diversification
    For the first three hundred years after European settlement, the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador depended almost solely on the fisheries
  • 19th Century Informal Economy
    An informal economy is one in which people provide for their own needs by engaging in a variety of noncommercial activities
  • Labour Organization and Unions
    Until well into the 20th century, Newfoundland's primary economic activity was in the fisheries.
  • Work and Labour
    A brief history of work and labour, both paid and unpaid, in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Mainline Construction, 1881-1897
    After rejecting Confederation with Canada in 1869, railway construction was championed in Newfoundland as the 'work of a country.'
  • Mining in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Mining has played an important if sporadic role in the economic, social, and cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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