Matching Articles"Industrial Development" (Total 24)

  • Excerpts from the 1998 Heritage Fair project dealing with child labour in the Bell Island Mines. Includes a brief overview and an interview with Mr. Charles Bown.
  • An article on electrifying the island of Newfoundland following confederation with Canada in 1949.
  • Hamilton River was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hydro electric projects.
  • Forest industries contribute much to the Newfoundland and Labrador economy.
  • The island of Newfoundland contains 15 million acres of forest, of which more than nine million acres are considered productive.
  • Government officials promoted various land-based industries during the first half of the 20th century.
  • Mining has played an important if sporadic role in the economic, social, and cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • 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.
  • Advances in transportation during the late 1800s and the early 1900s affected the development of the forestry and mining industries in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • 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.
  • The Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine is located in northern Labrador, about 35 kilometres southwest of Nain.
  • The growth of land-based industries helped alter the traditional role of some women in Newfoundland and Labrador society.
  • Information about the Bay d'Espoir Hydro-Electric project started by Premier Joseph Smallwood to create a province-wide power network.
  • A contract created in 1969 between the Smallwood government and Hydro-Quebec that sold the water rights of Churchill falls for a term of 40 years.
  • During the mid-1960s, American entrepreneur John Shaheen arranged with Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Joseph Smallwood to construct an oil refinery at Come By Chance.
  • A look at the development of electricity in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
  • One of the industries which the Smallwood government managed to lure to the province with the promise of cheap power was the ERCO.
  • The Canadian airfield at Goose Bay, Labrador, impacted its surroundings dramatically during the Second World War.
  • Development, construction, and fate of the third linerboard mill in Newfoundland and Labrador, created in Stephenville by the Smallwood government.
  • Information about Megaprojects undertaken by the Smallwood government to further industrialize Newfoundland and Labrador.