| Summary: | This is an edition of J. P. Howley’s "Reminiscences" (ca. 1914), a memoir based on diaries and notebooks written during his years of exploration and mapping in the interior and along the coasts of Newfoundland. Section IV: pages 1085-1584. Contents: 1890 Railway Survey West from Exploits River: p. 1085 -- 1891 Resumption of Search for Coal at Grand Lake; North towards White Bay; George's Lake: p. 1205 -- 1892 Search for Coal Continues at Grand Lake: p. 1294 -- 1893 Steam-drilling for Coal at Grand Lake; Trip to Nova Scotia: p. 1347 -- 1894 Geological Features along Railway: p. 1438 -- 1895 Coal Found at Rail Bed near Grand Lake: p. 1496 -- 1896 Oil at Parsons Pond: p. 1510. Produced with the assistance of Robert C. Hollett; based on original source documents in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives; includes photographs and drawings. Bibliography and index: in section 07.
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