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English men. The earliest settlers came from Devon, Cornwall, and Liverpool, England. It is believed that Richard Rogers from Sheffield, England settled in Fair Island around 1800 and other families soon followed. Families that moved there between 1800 and 1840 were: Ackerman, Gibbons, Pond, Way, Wicks, and later came, Harlock, Farmage,Oakley & Boland
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Labrador fishery as the inshore fishery could no longer sustain the growing population. Sealing activity was first recorded in 1857, the Labrador cod fishery was still growing, and smaller
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A journal of the Bishop’s visitation of the missions of the northern coast, in the summer of 1846
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847:http://www.willow-house.com/gazfree/Bonavista.html
722:List of ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
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794:Hutchinsons Newfoundland Directory 1864-65
747:Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
919:Ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador
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857:http://ngb.chebucto.org/
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