Matching Articles"19th Century" (Total 443)

  • Reid Descendants--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web
  • Robert Gillespie Reid and his descendants left an imprint on numerous aspects of Newfoundland business, politics and society.
  • Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...
  • 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.'
  • Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.
  • The first sealing vessels from St. John's sailed to the ice in 1793. Following their successful expedition, the sailing seal fishery expanded rapidly.
  • From the arrival of Europeans until the 20th century, Newfoundland was valued mainly for its rich marine resources, especially cod.
  • The first half of the nineteenth century saw changes in the markets for Newfoundland salt fish.
  • The bulk of seals taken annually in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the eastern coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador are Greenland seals, or harps.
  • 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.
  • Newfoundland's tourism industry dates back to the 1890s, when advances in rail and ocean transportation made the colony more accessible than before.
  • A history of the merchant community in Newfoundland and its effect on trade and commerce
  • Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's outport economy depended not on cash, but on merchant credit for much of the 19th century.
  • The majority of women in Newfoundland by the early 1800s were residents who prosecuted the family-based fishery.
  • The role of women in the Newfoundland and Labrador inshore fishery has expanded greatly since the 19th century.
  • Overview of the Women Shop Workers of Water Street.
  • Biography of Agnes Marion Ayre (1890-1940).
  • Avalanches involve the rapid downslope movement of snow or ice, with or without sediment and rock.
  • Estimating the cost of geological hazards is extremely difficult.

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