Matching Articles"Industrial Development" (Total 11)

  • 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.
  • Hamilton River was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hydro electric projects.
  • 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 growth of land-based industries helped alter the traditional role of some women in Newfoundland and Labrador society.
  • 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.
  • The Canadian airfield at Goose Bay, Labrador, impacted its surroundings dramatically during the Second World War.
  • German firms established thirteen of the sixteen manufacturing plants created in Newfoundland during the 1950s due to Alfred Valdmanis' business contacts.
  • The examination of two company towns, Buchans and Grand Falls-Windsor. Company towns are towns which were based exlusively upon one industry.