Matching Articles"20th Century" (Total 24)

  • Silk-Stocking Mats
    The quiet months of February and March were known as the matting season along the rugged coast of northern Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • 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.
  • US Army Air Force Base Construction
    The construction of the US Army Air Force Base was started in 1941 when the US came to Stephenville Newfoundland.
  • Air Force Base Buildings
    This article is about the buildings that were created during World War II because of the Stephenville air force base.
  • The Arms, Seals, and Emblems of Newfoundland and Labrador
    The function of coats of arms, great seals, and emblems is to identify a place, person, or institution. Various symbols have represented Newfoundland.
  • 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.
  • Grenfell Mission
    The Grenfell Mission provided some of the earliest permanent medical services in Labrador and northern Newfoundland.
  • Harmon Field
    In 1941, the United States obtained rights to construct an air base in the St. Georges Bay area of Newfoundland.
  • Marconi
    About the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, his life, his work, and his dealings with Newfoundland.
  • Mass Media
    Mass media in Newfoundland and Labrador. Examples discussed include newspapers, radio, television, and the telegraph.
  • Outports
    About outports in Newfoundland and Labrador. An outport is literally any port other than the principal port of St. John's.

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