Matching Articles"War" (Total 7)

  • An extract from Letter to Board of Trade, by Colonel J. Gibson, dated June 28, 1697.
  • During the Second World War, the relatively quiet port of Botwood became a highly-militarized Canadian coastal defence base.
  • As the likelihood of war increased in the 1930s, Canada realized that its defence hinged on the protection of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Building Newfoundland and Labrador's defences during the Second World War.
  • The creation of the American air base at Stephenville during the WWII saw the quiet farming village quickly transformed into a booming garrison town.
  • About health conditions in Newfoundland during WWII such as problems with housing and veneral disease and the need for wartime hospitals.
  • Pine Tree Radar Site is one of three warning systems selected when NORAD decided to build a number of Aircraft Control and Warning Stations.