Newfoundland has always depended heavily upon the sea for transportation.

On the completion of the railway line, there was an attempt to consolidate and expand coastal steamship services in Newfoundland and Labrador...

Extract from 'The Answer to the Enquiries from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Council of Trade and Plantations' by Andrew Leake, 1699.

Letter to Sir John Coke from Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, dated March 15, 1625, and dealing with planters, ships, and livestock.