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  • 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.
  • About health conditions in Newfoundland during WWII such as problems with housing and veneral disease and the need for wartime hospitals.
  • The cod fishery and its mercantile activities greatly influenced Irish settlement patterns in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Positive and negative influences of British, French, and American military bases on Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • About the history of the francophone population on the Port-au-Port Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Scottish immigrants to Newfoundland and Labrador worked predominantly in the fields of commerce and agriculture during the 19th century.
  • The Spanish flu did not originate in Newfoundland and Labrador, but the country's ports, and global trade relations made it vulnerable to the disease.
  • About the Spanish influenza pandemic that reached Newfoundland and Labrador in 1918 and killed more than 600 people in less than five months.