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166 x 120 mm. Showing a leaping salmon on the falls.

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290 x 243 mm. A view near Morris in south-west Labrador showing the timber railway bridge over the Codroy River.

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283 x 235 mm. Showing a group of rowing boats congregated together before setting off on a squidding expedition.

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286 x 235 mm. A view looking out across Little Bay Islands with the township encircling the bay and with Notre Dame Bay in the distance.

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292 x 224 mm. Showing neatly ordered houses and gardens at Bonne Bay with the harbour in the background and mountains in the distance.

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284 x 227 mm. A view showing four Eskimo dogs (not labradors!) at Cartwright, Sandwich Bay, Labrador.

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293 x 238 mm. Showing part of the town of Nain with a crude wooden shack in the foreground and the Mission Station beyond.

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285 x 238 mm. A view looking down on Indian Harbour showing a fishing fleet at anchor.

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275 x 228 mm. A view looking down on the town and harbour of Burin with fishing vessels at anchor in the bay. Burin is considered the best harbour in Newfoundland.

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288 x 243 mm. A view looking across neat little houses and gardens towards the harbour in the distance. The photograph is taken from the quarries. Situated on the other side of the Avalon Peninsula to St. John's, Placentia was the first and most important of the French settlements in Newfoundland and was founded in 1622.

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256 x 125 mm. A view looking down on the harbour and small settlement off Rigoulette (also spelt Rigolet). Lord Strathcona (1820-1914) the Canadian High Commissioner to England was based in Labrador with the Hudson's Bay Company from 1838-1868.

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288 x 232 mm. A view from a hillside above the bay showing a small township and one of the arms of land in the bay, 'This bay gains its name from the fact that it is so cut up by arms as to resemble the bones in a herring's neck'. (Holloway 1905).

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291 x 241 mm. A view looking across the fertile Codroy Valley with a river (presumably the Little Codroy River) meandering in the middleground.

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282 x 238 mm. A view from a hillside on the side of the bay looking across towards part of the town of Battle and showing Baine Johnson's Canneries and the Deep Sea Mission. With wooden fish flakes in the foreground.

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180 x 118 mm. A view from seawards showing the huge iceberg (height 150 feet, length 600 feet) which remained stranded outside the harbour mouth of St. John's for three weeks.

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205 x 152 mm. A view looking along the inlet, with mountains on all sides and a small sailing boat in the foreground.

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203 x 153 mm. Showing part of the town and harbour of Battle with a large iceberg in the foreground.

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200 x 153 mm. Showing a small sailing vessel among small ice floes, with land in the distance.

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205 x 153 mm. Showing a group of Innuits on the deck of a ship.

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203 x 153 mm. Showing part of the town and harbour of Battle with a large iceberg in the foreground.

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199 x 154 mm. Showing the small bay at Tilt Cove with a railway line running uphill to mine workings in the background.

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200 x 154 mm. Showing four fishermen posed in a forest clearing beside ther small log cabin.

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207 x 154 mm. A view looking across the small harbour at Venison Tickle with vessels at anchor. In the foreground are long rows of wooden stages, the 'flakes' on which the cod are laid to dry with men at work on the flakes nearer the water's edge.

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204 x 151 mm. A view from the cove looking towards the steep wooden slipway at the bottom of which are crowded about 25 rowing boats.