This page is a collection of historical pieces that I have gathered over time. It is just a start as I add articles regularly. Any errors or omissions are my own. I invite your suggestions. Click the title for content detail.
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It Started with Trees
Lumber and Logging: Family-Owned Steam-Powered Sawmills
A History of Log Driving and Water Management on the Shoal Harbour River and Pond Watershed
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Then Came the Railway
The Railway Connection: How Clarenville’s Community Rerouted History
The Railway Connection: Shaping Clarenville's Destiny
The Bonavista Branch Line: A History of Connection and Transition
The Iron Arteries of Clarenville: Rail Stations, Rolling Stock and Museum Display
The Northern Bight Railway Rock Quarry
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Then They Built Ships & Made Ashphalt
Shipbuilding in Clarenville: The Splinter Fleet
Industrialization In Clarenville: Newfoundland Hardwoods
A Snapshot of Downtown Clarenville Businesses
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Then They Connected the Town to the Province to the World
WW2 - The Silent Sentinels: The Shoal Harbour Repeater Station
Aviation Infrastructure and Logistics in Clarenville
Location, Location, Location: Clarenville as a Strategic Service Hub
The Rise of a Regional Hub: Clarenville's Modern History
Building the Trans Canada Highway: A Truck in the Water and a Piece of the Past
Manitoba? How Clarenville's busiest street got its name.
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Into the Modern Age
1951 Clarenville: The Origins of a Municipality
1951 Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 27
1953 Across the Bar: How the Hefferton Causeway Connected Random Island
1961 The Clarenville Volunteer Fire Department
1964 History of Clarenville Campus of College of the North Atlantic
1964 The Clarenville Lions Club: A Legacy of Community Building
1968 The Ink and the Echo: The Packet Newspaper
1968 The History of Clarenville Area Consumer's Coop
From Crude to Carbon-Neutral: The Come By Chance Refinery (1973-2026)
1973 Shoal Harbour: The Origins of a Municipality
1977 Service Above Self: A History of the Rotary Club of Clarenville
1983 Taking Flight: The History of the Clarenville Airstrip
1987 Milestone on Manitoba Drive: Building the Dr. G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital
1989 - A Comprehensive History of White Hills Resort
1980's Senior Hockey in Clarenville - The Caribous
1987 White Hills Resort - The Successes and Challenges of a Town-Owned Resort
1994 Joined at the Hub: The Amalgamation of Clarenville and Shoal Harbour
2004 - Shoal Harbour Drive
2023 The Shoal Harbour Causeway Renewal