O'Meara, Terence

• Main Author: Riggs, Bertram G., 1954-
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries 1997
• Subjects: Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ead/id/467

This collection contains only a small portion of the papers of Terence O'Meara; it contains information relevant to just a particular aspect of O'Meara's career, a short time spent in Newfoundland to co-ordinate the establishment of a Colas plant at Clarenville in 1937. The collection consists of a report, complete with photographic illustrations, of the construction and start up of the plant, various local newspaper clippings concerning the plant, location diagrams for the plant at Clarenville and charts of the runways at the airport under construction at Gander which the plant was built to surface, of the sea-plane base at Botwood and of North Atlantic air routes. The collection should prove beneficial to researchers interested in aviation history, especially the construction of airport runways, industrial development in rural Newfoundland and the history of Clarenville, Botwood and Gander.