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...Newfoundland, the oldest English-speaking possession in North America.*After nearly four backward centuries as an isolated British colony, the rugged North Atlantic island -the tenth and youngest Canadian province-is becoming industrialized. Its 361,000 hardy inhabitants, who once looked to the sea for a scant livelihood as cod fishermen, are turning inland to their mineral-rich mountains, their forests and power-packed waterfalls. With these resources, Newfoundland has launched a development program to balance its lopsided maritime economy, and change the sparse existence of its people for a fuller life...
Spruce & Iron. In spite of its backward aspects, Newfoundland is potentially rich. The famed Grand Banks off its southeast coast, discovered for England by John Cabot in 1497, are still the world's greatest cod-fishing grounds. Newfoundland's forests abound with prime black spruce for papermaking; they hold the only big stand of disease-free birch left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits...
...life," says an old Newfie tag, "when he haves a pig an' a punt an' a potato patch." Through most of their history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...
...depression cracked even Newfoundland's primitive economy. When the market for salt cod failed, one-third of the island's population was forced on the dole. Payments were only 6^ a day, but even that soon broke the public treasury. Newfoundland had to give up self-government, and a British commission came in to try to get the island on its feet...
...Karl Knaths, 60, Cape Cod abstractionist: The Moon, an angular farmyard scene in grey and lavender, and Salt Flats, a seaside scene in blues and greens...