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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.
Fisheries Technology Since Confederation
Advances in harvesting and processing technology resulted in dramatic changes to the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries.
Post-Moratorium Fisheries
Following the 1992 cod moratorium, Newfoundland and Labrador's fishing industry shifted from a groundfishery to a shellfishery.
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.
Confederation and Canadian National (1949-1988)
The Newfoundland Railway linked not only opened up the western interior of the island, but also provided a link between Newfoundland and Canada
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.
Newfoundland Railway Steamers
On the completion of the railway line, there was an attempt to consolidate and expand coastal steamship services in Newfoundland and Labrador...
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.
The Reid Lands
Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...
The Reid Newfoundland Company
In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'
Robert Gillespie Reid
Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.
20th Century Salt Fish Marketing Organizations
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Newfoundland salt fish industry faced marketing problems.
19th Century Salt Fish Markets, 1850-1914
The first half of the nineteenth century saw changes in the markets for Newfoundland salt fish.
20th Century Salt Fish Markets: 1914-1992
At the outbreak of war in 1914, the Newfoundland fishery was already in trouble.
Social and Economic Impacts
The growth of land-based industries during the first half of the 20th century helped diversify Newfoundland and Labrador's economy into sectors other than the fishery.
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