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Bell Island is an island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay. Image File history File links Bell_Island_Newfoundland. ... Image File history File links Bell_Island_Newfoundland. ... Newfoundland â€” (stress on final syllable; for mispronunciations, see Newfoundland travel guide from Wikitravel)â€” (French: , Irish: ) is a large island off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ... The Avalon Peninsula is a large peninsula (9,270 km²) that makes up the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland. ... Conception Bay bounded by Cape St. ...

Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 square kilometres. The soil is composed of Ordovician sandstone and shale with red hematite. A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... The Ordovician period is the second of the six (seven in North America) periods of the Paleozoic era. ... Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding over millions of years Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. ... Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ... Hematite (AE) or haematite (BE) is the mineral form of Iron(III) oxide, (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. ...

A ferry sevice runs from Portugal Cove to Bell island daily, allowing people who work elsewhere to go to work every day.

1 History
2 The Bell Island Boom
3 References
4 External links
5 See also

History

Likely settled by Maritime Archaic Indians and/or the Dorset people, Bell Island, as with the rest of the island of Newfoundland was likely inhabited by the Beothuk Nation at the time of European discovery. For other uses, see Dorset (disambiguation). ... Beothuk The Beothuks were the native inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. ...

The first European inhabitants settled during 1700s and attempted to farm and fish with the island having a subsistence economy throughout much of the 1800s. The economy expanded tremendously during the 1890s when iron ore mining began near the community of Wabana. Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... This heap of iron ore pellets will be used in steel production. ...

Wabana grew to become the island's largest community and the mine became one of the largest producers of iron ore in northeastern North America. The mine's workings extended beneath the seabed of Conception Bay, creating one of the most extensive submarine iron mines in the world.

Most of Bell Island's ore was shipped from loading facilities to Sydney, Nova Scotia where it was smelted in a steel mill. The steel mill at Sydney and the iron mine at Bell Island were owned by the Dominion Steel and Coal Company (DOSCO), which at one point was one of the largest private employers in Canada. Downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia Sydney, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island Sydney is a community and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, and is located on its namesake harbour in eastern Cape Breton County. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages none (English, French, Gaelic) Flower Trailing arbutus Tree Red Spruce Bird Osprey Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 11 10 Area... Historic smelter in Florence, Colorado In extractive metallurgy, a smelter is a factory for producing metal by the reduction of ore. ... Sydney Steel Corporation (SYSCO) is a Crown corporation in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...

During the Second World War, the anchorage for bulk carriers shipping iron ore was attacked by a German U-boat in 1942. 4 ships were sunk during 2 separate attacks and the loading pier was also struck by an errant torpedo. 69 merchant mariners lost their lives and a memorial on shore overlooks the waters where the wrecks can be seen at low tide. Bell Island was one of the very few locations on the North American landmass to see enemy action during the war. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Bulk carrier Berge Athene, a 225,000 DWT vessel. ... U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... Attacks on United States territory in North America during World War II by the Axis Powers were rare, mainly due to North Americas geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict in Europe and Asia. ...

Bell Island, Newfoundland

Being an underground operation, the Bell Island iron ore mine was an extremely expensive mine to operate. During the 1950s, some of the largest surface iron ore deposits in the world were discovered in northeastern Quebec and the western part of Labrador. After the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway was built in the latter part of the decade, Bell Island iron ore became uncompetitive. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1318x886, 131 KB)Bell Island, Newfoundland File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1318x886, 131 KB)Bell Island, Newfoundland File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Official languages French Flower Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor LinnÃ©) Tree Yellow Birch Bird Snowy Owl Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Lieutenant-Governor Lise Thibault Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 75 24 Area Total - Land - Water (% of... This article is about the region in Canada. ... The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is a Canadian regional railway that stretches 357 miles (575 kilometres) through the wilderness of northeastern Quebec and western Labrador. ...

During the early 1960s, the steel and coal industries on Cape Breton Island began to falter in the face of foreign competition. In 1966 the steel mill in Sydney and nearby coal mines were slated to be closed. At the same time, iron ore mining at Wabana stopped. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada NASA landsat photo of Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (French: Ã®le du Cap-Breton, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, MÃkmaq: Ãšnamakika, simply: Cape Breton) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...

Bell Island's resource-based economy was hard-hit by the shutdown, resulting in a large out-migration of residents. Some moved to the nearby growing metropolitan centre of St. John's. In recent decades a reverse move has been occurring where housing is being built on Bell Island to accommodate residents who wish to commute by ferry (20 minutes each direction) to Portugal Cove and travel to work in the city. Nickname: The City of Legends Motto: Avancez (Go forward) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Newfoundland and Labrador Established August 5, 1583 by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I City Mayor Andy Wells Governing body St. ... See Commute for other meanings. ... The Pride of Rotterdam, One of the P&O Ferriess Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Portugal Cove-St. ...

The scenic and sheltered waters of Conception Bay are also seeing an increase in pleasure boating activity as the suburban communities grow around nearby Conception Bay South. Conception Bay South (2005 pop. ...

The Bell Island Boom

On April 2, 1978, there was a loud explosion on Bell Island that caused damage to some houses and the electrical wires in the surrounding area. Two cup-shaped holes about two feet deep and three feet wide marked the major impact. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove, the surrounding community, also exploded at the time of the blast. Weather men confirmed that atmospheric conditions at the time were not conductive to lightning. The blast was heard 45 kilometers away in Cape Broyle. Apparently U.S. Vela satellites picked up the event. The incident was investigated promptly by two representatives from a U.S. weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, according to the news media.(1) It has been speculated that the explosion was ball lightning. However, a recent documentary aired on The History Channel about electromagnetic pulse weapons speculated that it may have been a result of top secret experiments by either the Russian or U.S. governments, involving high energy beams focused into the ionosphere.

References

1. Lt. Col. T.E. Bearden *Historical Background of Scalar EM Weapons

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The Bell Island Boom

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