Matching Articles"Fishery" (Total 70)

  • Since the mid-19th century, many Newfoundlanders thought the key to a prosperous future was a free trading relationship with the United States.
  • An article on the royal navy in Newfoundland in the Early 18th Century.
  • For almost every year since Confederation, more people have been leaving rural communities in Newfoundland than have been those moving in.
  • France was one of the earliest European nations to engage in the migratory fishery and dominated the industry throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • French migrations to Newfoundland and Labrador began in the early 16th century and lasted for approximately 400 years.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador's cod fishery was the major pull factor attracting French settlers to the colony from the 16th through 19th centuries.
  • The Irish played an important role in both the migratory and resident fisheries at Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • About outports in Newfoundland and Labrador. An outport is literally any port other than the principal port of St. John's.
  • Scottish ties to the Newfoundland cod fishery, seal fishery and commercial whaling.
  • The seasonal migrations from England to Newfoundland, begun in the 1500s, endured for nearly four centuries and involved hundreds of thousands of individuals.