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Historical Information
St. John's West Regional Area

The following are miscellaneous articles or books submitted by individuals that are doing research
and have graciously agreed to place them here for your pleasure.

 

People

1. First Mentioned Surnames of Inhabitants of Newfoundland prior to 1675

2. Medical Doctors Who Former Practiced in St. John's, NF

3. "Perhaps They Left Us Up Here" (excerpts of Newfoundland names)

4. "Newfoundland and its Missionaries" (excerpts of Newfoundland names)

5. Colonial Office Records

6. Newfoundland Disasters

7.House of Assembly Records

8.Newfoundland Veteran's Company

Events

1. Sir William Amherst - 1732-1781 The Recapture of St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762

2. Dispatches of Rear-Admiral, Lord Colville 1761-1762 The Recapture of St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762

3. Alcock and Brown's Trans-Atlantic flight from Lester's Field, St. John's, 1919

4. Severe Winter - 1847

5. Hurricane of 1775

School History and Various Reports

1. 1831/2 Proceedings of the Newfoundland & British North America Society for Educating the Poor.

General Interest

1. A Note on Jersey and Newfoundland

2. Curing fish for the shipment to England

3. The Early Relations between Newfoundland and the Channel Islands

4. The Expedition of Monsieur De Montigny to Newfoundland in 1705 Posted in French and English

5. Father Forristal Passes To His Reward

6. Greg Power, Joey Smallwood's Right Hand Man

7. Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Medicine In Newfoundland

8. The Jersey Men

9. Juke's Excursions, 1839 & 1840

10. Methodism, On the Grand Banks and Fortune Circuts from 1816 to 1916

11. Newfoundland Currency and Banksing Institutions

12. Newfoundland Folklore

13. S.S. Greenland

14. Six Month's of a Newfoundland Missionaries Journal Edward Wix

15. 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.

16.Clearance Certificate for the fishing vessel "Swan"

17. Listing of "Fishing Masters" showing locations, ship names and destinations during 1678

18. "A Matter of Custom and Convenience": Marriage Law in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland

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