1884

“In the valley between two hills on the south side is situated one of the most valuable copper mines in Newfoundland. A tramway extends...

1883

January The newly opened Little Bay Bazaar was doing well with profits being used to complete the RC church and to build a house for...

1882

1882 was a year of change, both for the town and the colony. Politics abounded and Little Bay was right in the middle of it. Newfoundland...

1881

By 1881 Little Bay had “a well equipped laboratory and numerous stores for grain, hay, provisions and necessary mining stock [and] large...

1880

In 1880 the copper boom peaked for Notre Dame Bay. This was the high-water mark but the decline would be slow across the rest of the 19th...

1879

The town of Little Bay was on the map in 1879 with a population recently swollen and suddenly lucrative. "Adolph Guzman developed...

1878

The year is 1878 in an area of Newfoundland still known as Indian Bight and the Little Bay mines are just about to start. And due to an...

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