Matching Articles"20th Century" (Total 15)

  • Agriculture in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador's climate and soil have not been conducive to agriculture, but outport isolation and poor fishery incomes have made farming crucial.
  • Land-Based Industries of the Early 1900s
    Government officials promoted various land-based industries during the first half of the 20th century.
  • Climate Applications
    The following examples illustrate the use of long-term climate data for siting, design, and operational planning in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Slope Instability
    Slope-stability or mass-movement problems occur where either sediment and/or rock and/or snow move downslope in response to gravity.
  • Early 20th Century Exploration
    20th Century Exploration--Exploration--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web
  • Bob Bartlett
    Biography of the explorer, Captain Robert (Bob) Bartlett, who skippered some of the most famous and controversial expeditions to the Arctic.
  • Uncovering Cabot: The Ruddock Riddle
    Alwyn Ruddock was a leading English scholar of 15th century exploration who spent four decades researching documents relating to John Cabot.
  • 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.
  • Drawn by the Lure of Labrador
    The story of the tragic 1903 Hubbard Expedition into the Labrador interior, and an overview of the career of Dillon Wallace.
  • The Karluk Disaster
    In 1913, the Karluk departed Canada for the western Arctic. The ship sank amid unpredictable Arctic flows, leaving the crew stranded on the ice.
  • Social History 1760-1830
    Considerable uncertainty surrounds our understanding of daily life in Newfoundland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Agriculture and the Commission of Government
    How the Commission of Government affected agriculture in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Social Changes under the Commission of Government
    One of the Commission of Government's major goals while in office was to improve social services in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Exploring 19th-Century Labrador
    An account of the failed 1887 expedition of Randle Wilson Holme (1864-1957) to reach Churchill Falls in the interior of Labrador.
  • Agricultural Communities
    This article is about the agricultural communities found in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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