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Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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INTRODUCTION. After an isolation of 400 years, the people of Newfound-land have, by the completion of the Trans-Insular Railway, beenbrought in touch with the outside world. During this longperiod the conditions of life were most primitive. Until a datequite recent the colony was without roads, without agriculture,without manufactures and without the most ordinary con-veniences. To the inhabitants of Newfoundland through all thosedreary centuries there was not even the boon of an alternative.Their sole and inevitable fate was to dwell on the rock-boundcoast and follow the treacherous main. Here generation aftergeneration has existed, confronting the pitiless rigors of theclimate and the terrors of the sea. To endure and survivethese extreme hardships and perils, implied more than a mererude subsistence. It was from this hard discipline of privationand self-sacrifice that heroic qualities were evolved. This isthe reward, of far greater worth than all material gains, whichNature gives t

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