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  • Post-Moratorium Fisheries
    Following the 1992 cod moratorium, Newfoundland and Labrador's fishing industry shifted from a groundfishery to a shellfishery.
  • Railway: The Branch Lines
    Although the main line was itself a signal feat of engineering and political optimism, branch lines were also integral to the Newfoundland railway.
  • Confederation and Canadian National (1949-1988)
    The Newfoundland Railway linked not only opened up the western interior of the island, but also provided a link between Newfoundland and Canada
  • Impact of the Newfoundland Railway
    The Newfoundland railway impacted the province economically, socially, and politically.
  • Narrative of the Newfoundland Railway
    The history of the railway: The construction period, the Reid family, the Government of Newfoundland, Canadian National Railways, and TerraTransport.
  • Railway Operations and Equipment
    Operations of the Newfoundland railway and the types of equipment that was required.
  • The Railway and Newfoundland Society
    It was anticipated from the first that the railway would transform Newfoundland and its society as a whole.
  • Newfoundland Railway Steamers
    On the completion of the railway line, there was an attempt to consolidate and expand coastal steamship services in Newfoundland and Labrador...
  • Telegraphy in Newfoundland and Labrador
    The first telegraph system in Newfoundland was established as part and parcel of a scheme to land a trans-atlantic telegraph cable in Newfoundland.
  • Newfoundland Railway
    The Newfoundland railway operated for a little over a century. From 1882-97 the trains ran over completed portions of a projected trans-insular line.
  • Reid Descendants
    Reid Descendants--Society--Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web
  • The Reid Family
    Robert Gillespie Reid and his descendants left an imprint on numerous aspects of Newfoundland business, politics and society.
  • The Reid Lands
    Few issues surrounding the Newfoundland Railway attracted as much controversy as the lands grants made under various construction contracts...
  • The Reid Newfoundland Company
    In 1911 P.T. McGrath wrote of the Reid Newfoundland Company that it was 'the biggest paymaster in the Island, bigger even than the government.'
  • Robert Gillespie Reid
    Biography of the patriarch of the Newfoundland Reid family, Robert Gillespie Reid.
  • The Sailing Seal Fishery
    The first sealing vessels from St. John's sailed to the ice in 1793. Following their successful expedition, the sailing seal fishery expanded rapidly.
  • 20th Century Salt Fish Marketing Organizations
    Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Newfoundland salt fish industry faced marketing problems.
  • 19th Century Salt Fish Markets, 1793-1850s
    From the arrival of Europeans until the 20th century, Newfoundland was valued mainly for its rich marine resources, especially cod.
  • 19th Century Salt Fish Markets, 1850-1914
    The first half of the nineteenth century saw changes in the markets for Newfoundland salt fish.
  • 20th Century Salt Fish Markets: 1914-1992
    At the outbreak of war in 1914, the Newfoundland fishery was already in trouble.

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