Matching Articles"Industrial Development" (Total 4)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • German firms established thirteen of the sixteen manufacturing plants created in Newfoundland during the 1950s due to Alfred Valdmanis' business contacts.