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Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The first copper mine was opened in 1864, and was speedily followed by others. In 1866 the Atlantic cable found a resting 16 NEWFOUNDLAND. place on the shores of the island, and connected it with Eng-land and America. Steam communication direct with Europe and America was established in 1873; and in 1884 the first railway, eighty-three miles in length, between St. Johns and Harbor Grace,was opened. In 1893, a contract was made for the construction of a trans-insular railway from the capital to Port-aux-Basques (548 miles), over which regular trains began to run on July 24, 1898,and a fine steamer in connection with it, makes the run across Cabot Strait to North Sydney, Cape Breton in six hours. Iron and copper mines are now worked in various localities. The population (1898), is about 210,000. A fine dry dock is built in St. Johns. The annual value of agricultural products is over $750,000, and the value of land under cultivation, together with the cattle, sheep and horses,over $2,500,000. to
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His Excellency Sir Cavendish Boyle, K. C. M. G., Governor of Newfoundland. - CHAPTER II. GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE. The geographical position of the island is unique and singularly important and commanding. Anchored at no great distance off the North American continent, and stretching right across the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to which it affords access at both its northern and southern extremities, itmight be regarded as a place of arms, and defence, for the power that holds it possesses the key of the St. Lawrence. It may be compared to a huge bastion thrown out into the North Atlantic, which if duly fortified and armed, could be made theGibraltar of the surrounding seas. Its southwestern extremity is within sixty or seventy miles of Cape Breton, which is substantially the eastern point of Nova Scotia, while its most eastern projection, Cape Spear is but 1,640 miles distance from Ireland. Thus it forms as it were a stepping stone between the Old World and the New. In regard to size it co

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