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  • The 19th century introduced new and increasingly efficient forms of transportation and communication to Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Vitims of the Stephenville Crash Hill Air Disaster: October 3, 1946
  • In 1946 a plane, after taking off at the Harmon Field Base, crashed into a fog-hidden Newfoundland mountainside and exploded into flames.
  • About the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, his life, his work, and his dealings with Newfoundland.
  • A Mount Pearl Junior High School project about the Newfoundland and Labrador tsunami
  • Information about the St. John's 1892 fire with emphasis on the reconstruction of the city after the disaster.
  • 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.