Keith Younge, local Manager of the Labrador Development Company Ltd., Port Hope Simpson; courtesy of John Illsley, grandson of J.O. Williams, from a set of semi-official photographs; 11January 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/
Monday, May 31, 2004
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