January The year 1885 opened with shipping problems caused by heavy ice. People on route were instead dropped as close as possible and left to walk the ice the rest of the way and freight being shipped to town was returned to St. John’s still onboa ...
“In the valley between two hills on the south side is situated one of the most valuable copper mines in Newfoundland. A tramway extends from the mine to the wharf in Little Bay, and there is a road to the settlement at the head of Indian bight. A wh ...
January The newly opened Little Bay Bazaar was doing well with profits being used to complete the RC church and to build a house for Father O’Flynn. The local custom involved Mr. Lynch leading the Little Bay Brass Band through town to the Hall in a ...
1882 was a year of change, both for the town and the colony. Politics abounded and Little Bay was right in the middle of it. Newfoundland had its 15th general election in October and William Whiteway formed the government under the Conservative Par ...
By 1881 Little Bay had “a well equipped laboratory and numerous stores for grain, hay, provisions and necessary mining stock large reservoirs capable of supplying any necessary amount of water” but, perhaps of greatest note, was the “ample wharfage ...
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 yea ...
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 t ...
The year is 1878 in an area of Newfoundland still known as Indian Bight and the Little Bay mines are just about to start. And due to an act of fortune or foresight the site has a brand new telegraph office already in place, the line extended there e ...
