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Matching Articles"Communities" (Total 23)

Buchans: The Making of a Company Town

The history of Buchans and of the mining industry is similar in many ways to that of other Newfoundland mining towns.
The St. Lawrence Fluorspar Mines: A Brief History

An account of the Fluorspar mines in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland from creation to closure.
Agricultural Communities

This article is about the agricultural communities found in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eastport Peninsula:Broomclose and Sailors Island

A histroy about the communities Broomclose and Sailors Island, located on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
Churchill Park Garden Suburb

To improve the severe housing problem in St. John's, the CEHTP worked on the creation of the Churchill Park garden suburb.
Cities

Information about the definition of a city as well as information about St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Corner Brook.
Community

A community is a group of people who live in the same area and share the same culture. This article is all about the function of communities.
Company Towns: A look at Buchans and Grand Falls-Windsor

The examination of two company towns, Buchans and Grand Falls-Windsor. Company towns are towns which were based exlusively upon one industry.
Depopulation Impacts

The social and economic impacts of depopulation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Rural Depopulation in Newfoundland

For almost every year since Confederation, more people have been leaving rural communities in Newfoundland than have been those moving in.
Eastport Peninsula: Burnside

Information about the communities of Burnside and St. Chad's on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
Eastport Peninsula: The Neck

The Neck, a parcel of land used for inter-community and peninsular activities, is located between Eastport, Happy Adventure, and Sandy Cove.
Family and Community Origins on the Eastport Peninsula

The family and community origins on the Eastport Peninsula, One of Newfoundland's smaller but more interesting peninsulas.
Eastport Peninsula:Inter-Community Family Relationships

Families of Salvage were very closely intertwined through marriage and migration with those in nearby places.
Outports

About outports in Newfoundland and Labrador. An outport is literally any port other than the principal port of St. John's.
Eastport Peninsula: Permanent Settlement

Modern day settlement on the Eastport Peninsula began permanent residency in Barrow Harbour and Salvage from the 1780s onward.
Port-Au-Port Peninsula

About the history of the francophone population on the Port-au-Port Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eastport Peninsula: Religious Affiliations

Religious affiliations on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
Eastport Peninsula: Sandringham

Sandringham was one of eight land settlements created by the Commission of Government in Newfoundland to promote agriculture
Eastport Peninsula

Background information about the community of St. Chad's, located on the Eastport Peninsula in Newfoundland.

Matching Articles"Communities" (Total 23)

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