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DA Vol10 No04.Pdf OlCKSavvash Volume 10, Number4, August 1981 between the covers ith the burst of great summer weather we here and Corner Brook and failed to arrive W now are enjoying here it seems that before press time. "God's in his heaven and all's right with the We think that our railway articles will interest world". many because it appears that practically One hundred years ago this year, the railway everyone in Newfoundland seems to have a started to come into being. Thus, our Special vested interest in the railway. Section subject this time is The Railway in New­ As for the fishery, we hear that the trap season foundland. Researching the history was in­ has been very poor. but as of July 15th the cod teresting but frustrating because one historian's have been coming in better in some areas. Let's account frequently differs from that of another. hope that things continue to pick up. We welcome any comments from our readers. Walter Rockwood gives us some information Both David Wegenast and Wayne Stockwood on Labrador. Ross Traverse tells us about rode the rails. courtesy of TerraTransport. harvesting vegetables, and Anthony Murphy'S Wayne took a round trip from Bishop's Falls to adventure is concluded. Corner Brook, and David went from St. John's to We congratulate Circulation Manager Hazel Argenlia return. The engineers and crews rolled Harris whose son Jeremy was born July 13 ­ out the red carpet of hospitality and provided Hazel should be back on staff in late Fall. great material. We are certain that nowhere in See you in October! It the world would men hard at work on the railway so graciously answer our interminable ~1.1.., .{.~<.~ questions. We thank both the men and Terra Editor Transport for giving us the opportunity of a lifetime. We only wish that the Canada Post Office had been as co-operative because some of our pictures are in the mail somewhere between Table of Contents Special Section The railway then 3 TheraUwaynow 21 Back Section Chesley Ford 56 Home gardening 63 Anthony Murphy 61 The logo 01 the Newfoundland Railway. (Photo eN, from Letters 64 Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada. AaWare Enterprtses Ltd.• used With permission.) £4Kw: Sally Lou Le M~; WriLeni: David W~t, Wayne StockwGod; p~~: David Yleeenast, Sally Lou Le Messurier, Wayne Stockwood; PrWltCtM. a" Ad.'«tblq MaUler: AIIDl! eorrw.y; arr...o. Ma"llM': Hazel Harril; PlIo4.op'apillc PrlCes.lIl.: £TV P~"",. M"' ....-tal Ualvenlty of Newf._I.IIId; Lay.l alllll Prillthl.: RobiIJ5On-B"<:km~Printilllind Publisblna: Unuted, SI. JotufI, Newfoundland C_ Photo by Davkl Weeenast, the Itlltue, Industry, IlolidmIlpirit of the Newfoundland RroilwIY, hUltood in front of the SI. John'. rallw.y station .Inee abouttheturnoftheeentury Modelforthef~wu.. M"'Johallllll Quinlan 01 Holyrood, Conceptioo &lywbolater married I Mr Gushue,lndlived In Whltboume.GnlnltefromtheG.ffTopeailswasusedfotthe.tatue'.baseCMrlesHI!~urvedIDdustryfrom'Nndstone ..tepoitoitheAngllean Cathedral In St. Jonn', that was raeued after the fire of 1892. For. free IUbtcription 1.0 resldenta of Newfoundland and I.Ibra<klr, pleue write DeclllS Aw.... M.gnine. Elltenslon service, Memori.1 University of NeorfOUDllllnd.51 John's, Newfoundland, Ale 587, telephone 737-34111 Paid IUbteriptlonl for DOII·residentslre IVlllable,t S7.!IO. year P1eue make cheques plIyable toMemorial Univenily of NewfoundlaDd, attentiOl1SaUy Lou Le M~er f'0I'.dvfttltIDf,COI1tactSteveSbarpe,Sharpec:'llWnuted,tOE:uDClUthStreet,SI.Jobn'.,A1B2D.~722-2Sll DECKS AWASH ~ 1 ADVANCE MARINE ELECTRONICS LIMITED 106 Water 51. 753·2000 51. 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Nov., Ship Wiring Color Flshflnder Depth: 0 • 640 fathoms Contact Ron Pardy LOWEST and BEST PACKAGE PRICES IN NFLD. 2-DECKSAWASH special section DECKS AWASH· 3 the railway...then The Bulletis born n the year 1825 when the first public I passenger railroad was introduced in ~ngland, highroad construction began along a 14.4 km. (ninc mile) route between St. John's and Portugal Cove where a regular steamer service was established to carry mail and passengers across the bay from Harbour Grace, Carbonear and Brigus. Because the primitive route was the only transportation and communication link serving what amounted to half the population of the country it was no surprise that the St. John's Morning Post suggested that a railroad be constructed along the existing roadbed to Por­ tugal Cove in 1847. It was hoped that the proposed railway would provide the added in­ centive for freight and mail expansion between St. John's and Conception Bay communities. Although this particular project was never implemented, the concept of building a trans­ island railway continued to collect momentum until 1865 whan the House of Assembly at St. John's adopted a resolution, "That the company that would start the railway within two years of the first of June 1866 would receive grants in fee of the land which the said line of the rail is to be built and...grants to the extent of five miles on Thorburn's "road 'to Placentia. each side of the said line, together with Timber population was rapidly increasing while their and Mineral rights." mainstay, the fisheries, showed unmistakable The decision to build a trans-island railway symptoms of decline," Many politicians and was no doubt anxious to take full political ad­ local merchants who stood to prosper by the received the results of the 1864 Geologic Studies implementation of railway construction felt that of the interior of Newfoundland, the ad­ the railway was a good way to turn the work ministration of Prime Minister F.T.B. Carter force of the country in a new direction. were no doubt anxious to take full political ad­ Initial opposition to the proposal to construct vantage of the prosperity that the construction of the railway was swift and severe. The first a trans-island railway would produce in em­ railway survey was completed in 1876 at a cost of ployment and timber and mineral exploitation. $20,000, twice the estimate. Rev. Moses Harvey wrote in 1894, .....the Local politician and adamant anti-Confederate Charles Fox Bennett attacked the government for its extravagance, and used the railway construction to support his argument that a trans-island railway would promote unity with Canada. It was not difficult to gain support for his anti-Confederate stand in an impoverished colony which proudly displayed the Union Jack on every holiday. To counter the argument that the construction of the railway was beyond the means of the colony, John J. Dearin, a member of the House of Assembly, suggested in 1876 that a line to tap the commercial business of the Conception Bay area could be constructed to Harbour Grace at a A Hunslet locomotive railway in 1882 bearing the name 01 cost estimated in the vicinity of $1.25 million. The American syndicate representative Albert L Blackman. figure was substantially less than the estimated (PANL photo) $7.5 to $8 million it would cost to construct a 4 - DECKS AWASH railway from St. John's to St. George's Bay along the Gander and the Indian River valleys. Using $1,000,000 that was granted the New­ foundland Government for a fisheries ar­ bitration under the Treaty of Washington, Prime Minister William Whiteway's administration felt confident that they would be able to finance the first Newfoundland railway contract in 1881 with an American syndicate represented by promoter Albert L. Blackman. On August 9, 1881, local dignitaries gathered at Fort William to watch Lady Whiteway turn the first sad in a railway venture that was supposed to cost the Newfoundland Government an annual subsidy of $180,000 for 35 years and was to grant Blackman's Syndicate 5,000 acres of land for every mile of rail they laid. Blackman's crews Placentia Station at the turn of the century. (Newfoun­ financed by London backers quickly began dland Transport Historical Society). constructing a rail bed along present-day Em­ ment! This irony would later come to the pire Avenue, in St.
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