The Company boat, "Betty and Ida" now named "P.D." on the Alexis River, Port Hope Simpson, 1935; Courtesy of John Illsley, grandson of J. O. Williams from a set of semi-official photographs at the time; 11 January 2003
Port Hope Simpson history of development with photographs
A hoary tale of greed, money, cruelty, deception, boom and bust, get-rich-quick, 1930s unsustainable industrialisation of the Labrador forests.Terrible economic hardship and poverty, political corruption,intrigue,horror and mystery. http://porthopesimpson.blogspot.com/
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