In 1880 the copper boom peaked for Notre Dame Bay. This was the high-water mark but the decline would be slow across the rest of the 19th century, coming in fits and starts before puckering out in the early 1900s. But, these were still the boom years and the town was being hailed as "Newfoundland's el Dorado" (Moments in Time). It also gained some fancy government appointees this year such as a shiny new Magistrate by the name John B. Blandford (Twillingate Sun). A subcollector named Duder was ...

The town of Little Bay was on the map in 1879 with a population recently swollen and suddenly lucrative. "Adolph Guzman developed during much of 1879, removing hundreds of tons of ore from the locale to the Little Bay smelters" (Martin). Many of the early players in the town were of German origin and Baron Franz von Ellershausen treated the design of the town and mine together as a social project. Ellershausen was already known in Nova Scotia where he had built houses for 32 shipwrecked Germa ...