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...with the ice gone at last from the flat water downstream, ships of many nations furrowed the glacier-carved Saguenay. Inbound, most of them carried cargoes of orange-colored bauxite (aluminum ore) from British Guiana. A few were laden to the Plimsoll mark with cryolite from Greenland, fluorspar from Newfoundland, pitch and coke from the U.S. At Port Alfred on Ha! Ha! Bay,? fine ores were loaded into railroad cars for a 20-mile journey beyond the deep water. The freighters were reloaded with aluminum, in ingots or billets, for the industry of Canada and foreign lands...
Only Fit for a Saga. Like Pytheas, the Vikings, who roamed from Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen to Greenland and Newfoundland, were too far ahead of their time. By the15th Century, when their own exploratory impetus was spent, their Arctic trade-routes and their flourishing Greenland colonies had become mere fantastic stuff for sagas...
...hour later, the ice-shrouded, gutted building had cooled. Inside, firemen found charred bodies, some of them piled near windows, others still in bed. In all, 33 had died. It was the worst fire in Newfoundland since the K. of C. Hostel blaze claimed 100 in 1942. Two years after the Fire Department and City Council had recommended fire escapes for Hull Home, the city began an inquiry to find out why they had never been installed...
Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...
...year-old ex-U.S. Navy pilot named Charles Martin-decided what to do. While he still had gasoline for almost three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...