Matching Articles"20th Century" (Total 13)

  • Decades of overfishing in Newfoundland and Labrador caused the northern cod stocks to collapse during the 1990s and resulted in a moratorium.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's forests are a renewable resource, so long as they are harvested in a sustainable way.
  • The gradual mechanization of Newfoundland and Labrador's logging industry changed the way loggers interacted with forest ecosystems.
  • A major concern surrounding Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry is that it may do serious damage to the ocean environment.
  • The Voisey's Bay project has the potential to do considerable damage to the environment if not properly managed by industry and by the government.
  • 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.
  • Considerable uncertainty surrounds our understanding of daily life in Newfoundland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • The importance of the Colonial Building to suffrage, the Chinese, and Bella 'Bobbie' Robertson.
  • One of the industries which the Smallwood government managed to lure to the province with the promise of cheap power was the ERCO.
  • A brief history of the Colonial Building, based on an exhibition by the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1997.
  • As a direct result of the Earnest Harmon Air Force Base, there are environmental concerns associated with Stephenville and surrounding areas.
  • People were first drawn to Stephenville because of the excellent fishing grounds and fertile soils.
  • The negative environmental influences of the American Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland.