Newfoundland Heritage Web Site

Electrifying Labrador

Hamilton River was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hydro electric projects.
Forest Industries

The island of Newfoundland contains 15 million acres of forest, of which more than nine million acres are considered productive.
Industrialization and Diversification

For the first three hundred years after European settlement, the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador depended almost solely on the fisheries
Work and Labour

A brief history of work and labour, both paid and unpaid, in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mining in Newfoundland and Labrador

Mining has played an important if sporadic role in the economic, social, and cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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.
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.
Transportation and Land-Based Industries

Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Economic Changes, 1815-1832

The reform era was a time of economic hardship. The end of the Napoleonic Wars plunged the colony into an economic depression lasting for years.