Matching Articles"Settlement" (Total 31)

  • 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.
  • Much of our knowledge of daily life in outport Newfoundland in the late 18th and early 19th century comes from the pens of visitors. They were typically missionaries, explorers, naturalists, and geologists whose work brought them to outlying communities not often visited by outsiders or even the local government.
  • The role of the Garrison in Newfoundland between the years 1815 and 1870.
  • The most visible sign of the transformation from fishery to colony was the increase in Newfoundland's permanent population.
  • Information about the migratory fishery and the patterns permanent settlement around Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • An overview of the growth of the resident population and patterns of settlement in Newfoundland during the early 19th century.
  • Considerable uncertainty surrounds our understanding of daily life in Newfoundland during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Although the British Government had attempted in 1775 to limit residence, within 50 years it conferred colonial status upon Newfoundland.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador experienced immigration during the first half of the 19th century and emigration during the latter decades of the century.
  • About the origins of the town of Stephenville and it's surrounding area, once known as the Acadian Village.
  • A histroy about the communities Broomclose and Sailors Island, located on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
  • Information about the definition of a city as well as information about St. John's, Mount Pearl, and Corner Brook.
  • The settlement of Eastport, Happy Adventure and Sandy Cove was essentially a single phased operation from the 1850s into the 1870s.
  • The origins of Communities in the Eastport Peninsula, such as Salvage, Eastport, Sandy Cove, Happy Adventure, etc.
  • 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.
  • Information about the communities of Burnside and St. Chad's on the Eastport Peninsula of Newfoundland.
  • The Neck, a parcel of land used for inter-community and peninsular activities, is located between Eastport, Happy Adventure, and Sandy Cove.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador is often described as having the most homogeneous population of European origin in Canada.
  • A permanent population in the Salvage-Barrow Harbour area from the 1780s up to the 1820s was created by families who came to fish for cod.
  • Families of Salvage were very closely intertwined through marriage and migration with those in nearby places.