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THE ANGLO-NEWFOUNDLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD.

The Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Ltd. archive relating to the Pulp and Paper Mills at Exploits River, Grand Falls, Newfoundland, circa 1905-09

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THE ANGLO-NEWFOUNDLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD.
The Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Ltd. archive relating to the Pulp and Paper Mills at Exploits River, Grand Falls, Newfoundland, circa 1905-09
Eight albums containing a total of over 400 gelatin silver prints. approx. half snapshot size, several panoramic format, 3½ x 12 in. to 8 x 19 in., other sizes approx. 4½ x 6½ in. to 10¾ x 14½ in., occasional. titles in the negatives, variously mounted, the majority titled in ink on mounts, various bindings. Seven titled Newfoundland - Early Photos during Construction in the bush (1), Newfoundland 1912 (3), and Kodak Panoramas (2), oblong 8vo. to oblong folio; with a few miscellaneous photographs loosely inserted; seven gelatin silver print panoramas, each approx. 8 x 49 in., titled and credited in the negative For Anglo-Newfoundland Developing Co., Grand Falls, Nfld. Dodge Photo, Sydney CB., rolled; with printed ephemera published by the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Ltd. under the directorship of Mayson M. Beeton including copies of Memorandum, Articles of Association, and Original Agreements, 1905; Progress of Operations at Grand Falls, Exploits River, Newfoundland, 1907;

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The Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company Ltd. was founded by journalist and newspaper proprietor, Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe. Anticipating the possible shortage of raw material in Europe, Harmsworth began looking to the colonies for supplies. Mayson Beeton was commissioned to investigate areas in Newfoundland and after several months settled on the Exploit River region at Grand Falls. The Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company was incorporated in 1905 when it acquired 2,300 square miles together with the water powers on the Exploits River. In 1909, the Pulp and Paper Mills at Grand Falls were formerly opened, marking the beginning of a new chapter in Newfoundland's industrial history and commercial development.