Matching Articles"20th Century" (Total 25)

  • 20th-Century Fisheries and Settlement Patterns
    The industrialization of Newfoundland and Labrador's fisheries during the late 20th century changed the way people in the province worked and lived.
  • 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.
  • Eyewitness Accounts of Early Outport Life
    Much of our knowledge of daily life in outport Newfoundland in the late 18th and early 19th century comes from the pens of visitors. They were typically missionaries, explorers, naturalists, and geologists whose work brought them to outlying communities not often visited by outsiders or even the local government.
  • Social History 1760-1830
    Considerable uncertainty surrounds our understanding of daily life in Newfoundland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • The Colonial Building
    The importance of the Colonial Building to suffrage, the Chinese, and Bella 'Bobbie' Robertson.
  • Referendum Voting Trends by District
    Two tables showing (1) the percentages of Roman Catholics and Protestants in each district during the Confederation debate, and (2) the percentages of those who voted for either Responsible Government or Confederation in the 2nd referendum.
  • Frances 'Fannie' McNeil (1869-1928)
    Biography of Frances 'Fannie' McNeil (1869-1928).
  • History of the Vote
    Today, Canadian citizens aged 18 and older have the right to vote in federal, provincial, and municipal elections. This is known as universal suffrage.
  • Women's Associations: 1800-1966
    Long before the suffrage movement, women's groups in Newfoundland and Labrador worked for social change and community improvement.
  • Women in Politics
    The challenging role of women in politics from 1925, when women earned the right to vote and run for political office, to present day.
  • Women's Suffrage
    About the women's suffrage movement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Eastport Peninsula:Broomclose and Sailors Island
    A histroy about the communities Broomclose and Sailors Island, located on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
  • Cities
    Information about the definition of a city as well as information about St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Corner Brook.
  • Community
    A community is a group of people who live in the same area and share the same culture. This article is all about the function of communities.
  • Eastport Peninsula: Burnside
    Information about the communities of Burnside and St. Chad's on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
  • Eastport Peninsula: The Neck
    The Neck, a parcel of land used for inter-community and peninsular activities, is located between Eastport, Happy Adventure, and Sandy Cove.
  • Ethnic Diversity
    Newfoundland and Labrador is often described as having the most homogeneous population of European origin in Canada.
  • Eastport Peninsula:Inter-Community Family Relationships
    Families of Salvage were very closely intertwined through marriage and migration with those in nearby places.
  • Janet Miller Helped Pave the Way
    The story of Janet Miller (1891-1946), the first woman entered on the rolls of the Newfoundland Law Society.
  • The Moravian Church
    A look at the Moravian Church, it's origins, and it's influence on Newfoundland and Labrador.

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