Identifier: newfoundlandin00mcgr (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Photo.) On the little River Codroy. (Holloway)
Text Appearing After Image:
IMAGE: Notre Dame Bay (Holloway) 65 terminals point, where the several bay steamers connect with the trains, substantial wharves and adequate freight ship.s are provided. The Company's steamers are equally up-to-date and satisfactory in every respect. The Bruce, plying between Port-aux-Basques and North Sydney, Cape Breton, where she connected every other day with the Intercolonial Railway system of Canada, and thus enabled communication to be made with every part of the outside world, had become almost a household word in the colony, during her twelve years performance of this service, until she was unfortunately wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast last March.She was seventeen-knot steamer of clipper type, specially constructed to withstand ice, and was the staunchestand stoutest ship in North American waters ; costing $250,000, having excellent accommodation for passengers, and even in mid-winter able to battle with the heaviest ice floes and to make her trips, except on rare occasions,with clockwork regularit)^ Slightly smaller

Note About Images