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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)

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 NOTE: This is a large file-Slow to download

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. 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

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