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Historical Information
Carbonear 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.United Church Ministers in Carbonear (1785-1988)

3.Contributions re Construction of a New Protestant Schoolhouse (1853)

4.Letters written in the 1930's and 40's

5. To His Excellency John Campbell Esq. The humble activities of the Principal inhabitants, Planters, and Boatkeepers residing in Conception Bay, Newfoundland

6. Victoria's First Town Clerk

7. Newfoundland Disasters

8. Carbonear Captains and the Ships they commanded

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

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

11.Colonial Office Records

12.House of Assembly Records

13.Newfoundland Veteran's Company

14. My Life In The Lumber Woods In The 1930s - Allan P. Clarke (1916-1998)

Places

1. The Fisherman's Road, Victoria Village 1875

2.Land Petitions, August 16, 1831 .

3.The Markland Experiment: The Victoria Connection

4. Pack's Pond - Victoria

5.Prisoners of War Camps at Victoria in World War II

6. Victoria on the Road to Incorporation

7. Victoria: A Brief History "...for water and wood."

8. Anacosti Island Shipwreck Graves

8. Prisoners of War Camps at Victoria in World War II

Events

1. 1709 Queen Ann Petition

2. Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Medicine In Newfoundland

3.The Southern Cross

4. 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.The Alphabet

2.Curing fish for the shipment to England

3.Juke's Excursions, 1839 & 1840.

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

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

6. The Treasury of Newfoundland Stories - Story # 4 from a collection of 56 stories, true and fiction, about life in Newfoundland in the first half of the 20th century.

7.Background and History of Victoria Villiage

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

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

10. Methodism in Victoria

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