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Historical Information
Harbour Main Regional Area

The following are miscellaneous articles or books submitted by individuals that are doing research
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Harbour Main Historical Information
People
1. Death of John T. Roche - Harbour Main
2. Dr. Henry Stabb, Southern Shore Medical Report With many surnames listed
3. Edward (Ned) T. Allen, Topsail
4. Greg Power, Joey Smallwood's Right Hand Man
5. Medical Doctors Who Former Practiced in St. John's, NF
6. Peter Flannigan (1890-1995)
7. The People of the "Head of the Bay"
8. Picture James Cole Grave Marker
9. To His Excellency John Campbell Esq.
The humble activities of the Principal inhabitants, Planters, and Boatkeepers residing in Conception Bay, Newfoundland
10. Bell Island Headstone of John Jackman
11. "Perhaps They Left Us Up Here" (excerpts of Newfoundland names)
12. "Newfoundland and its Missionaries" (excerpts of Newfoundland names)
13. Newfoundland Disasters
14.House of Assembly Records
15.Newfoundland Veteran's Company
Places
1. Avondale - Disappearing church
2. Bell Island - A Community History
3. Chapel's Cove, Conception Bay, NF
4. Harbour Main - known for a time as Rogue's Roost (Historical)
5. History of Harbour Main by Alice Strapp
6. Holyrood, NF
7. Horse Cove, NF
8. The House on the Beach in Harbour Main
9. Land Petitions, August 16, 1831
10. Picture of the Collier's House
11. History of the Community of St. Thomas
12. Whelan home in Colliers is almost 200 years old
School History and Various Reports
1. School Children in Lance Cove School, Belle Isle
as per 1858 Journal of Assembly Report
2. School Children attending Topsail School
As per 1858 Journal of Assembly Report.
3. Names of School Children in Topsail
as per 1858 Journal of Assembly Reports. (Including Parents)
4. 1831/2 Proceedings of the Newfoundland & British North America Society for Educating the Poor.
Events
1. 100 Years Ago - Tragedy Came to Kitchuses
2. Ceremony To Honour Victims of German U-Boat Attack, Bell Island
3. Dedication Ceremony Of The United Church - 1901
4. A Double Religious Event: The Reception and Profession at Conception Harbour, NF
5. Drowned On The Banks
6. The Epic Tragedy of Belle Island
7. Bell Island Mining Fatalities
8. Harbour Main Parish celebrates 125th anniversary
9. Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Medicine In Newfoundland
10. Methodism In Eastern British America
11. Newfoundland Name Lore by The Late Archbishop Howley
12. Reports on State of The Work of God - 1829 - 1878 Newfoundland Conference Archives - St. John's
13. Bell Island Ballads By Peter Neary
14. Community Resettlement-1965
15. Hurricane of 1775
16. Colonial Office Records
General Interest
1. A Note on Jersey and Newfoundland
2. A Personal History of Topsail, NF
3. The Bell Island Regatta of 1912
4. Claire Nault's, Colonial Office Records
5. Curing fish for the shipment to England
6. The Elections of Harbour Main (1861)
7. The Expedition of Monsieur De Montigny to Newfoundland in 1705 Posted in French and English
8. Father Forristal Passes To His Reward
9.The Jersey Men
10. Juke's Excursions, 1839 & 1840
11. Misc. News re Belle Island
12. Newfoundland Currency and Banking Institutions
13. Newfoundland Folklore
14. Newfoundland's Island of Iron
15. Six Month's of a Newfoundland Missionaries Journal EdwardWix
16. The Treasury of Newfoundland Stories
A collection of 56 stories, true and fiction, about life in Newfoundland in the first half of the 20th century.
17. Blacksmith Bids for Fortune
18. Listing of "Fishing Masters" showing locations, ship names and destinations during 1678
19. "A Matter of Custom and Convenience": Marriage Law in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland

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