PUBLICATIONS
NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
"BELL ISLAND"
in
​Newfoundland Quarterly, Volume 1, No. 1, July 1901
Pages 2-3
The first full-length article in the Newfoundland Quarterly's first issue in July 1901 was titled "Bell Island." There is no author ascribed to the article, so it may have been written by the publisher, John J. Evans, himself. I am more inclined to think it was Isaac C. Morris (1857-1937), a St. John's businessman, politician, writer and public speaker. Morris was a prolific writer for the St. John's newspapers on the social and political issues of the day. He visited Bell Island in 1897 and 1899 and published his observations on the mining activity and social life in The Daily News. Judging by the writing style of this Newfoundland Quarterly ​article, it well may have been written by Morris. (See "Morris" on this "Publications" page for some of his Daily News articles about Bell Island.)

Here now is the Newfoundland Quarterly article of July 1901. The copy from which it was scanned had some flaws which I have attempted to heal with the help of Photoshop, but there were some page tears that could not be recovered, so there are a few missing words here and there.
I had to scan the pages in 3 parts each to make the print large enough to easily read. On the original page in the Newfoundland Quarterly, the middle section of this first page is a photo of the first pier (as it was when first built in 1895), which I have moved to the bottom of the text. Please read down the 2 parts of the text on the left before moving to the right.
First Pier at Bell Island
(This is a James Vey photo, c.1896, courtesy of A&SC, MUN Library)
Again, I had to scan this second page in 3 parts to make the print large enough to easily read. Please read down the 3 parts on the left before moving to the right.