The Cartwriter was a Cartwright, Labrador community based newspaper.
The Cartwright Courier was a community based newspaper started in Cartwright, Labrador in 1968.
Charles W.H. Tessier (fl. 1894-1909), merchant, operated a fish export business under his own name in St. John's, Newfoundland. The company had formerly been known as P. & L. Tessier, founded in 1847 by Peter and Lewis Tessier. Charles Tessier was a nephew of Lewis Tessier, identified in his will (1884) as a potential heir.
Initially the Tessier business had been modest, but after 1850 the firm became heavily involved in the salt cod trade. By the 1870s P. & L. Tessier had become one of the largest supply and export firms in Newfoundland. In 1871 and 1873 respectively, the Tessiers exported 106,000 and 76,980 quintals of fish from St. John's. The firm continued for some years after Peter Tessier's death, but folded in 1893.
Following the bank crash of 1894, Charles William Hutchings Tessier commenced his own business. By 1936 the business was operating out of an office on Water Street as commission merchants and insurance agents.
In 1968 the Presbyteries of the Newfoundland Conference were consolidated into three administrative units: Avalon, Terra Nova and Humber Presbyteries. Terra Nova Presbytery was formed from the eastern part of Grand Falls Presbytery and the western part of Bonavista - Burin Presbytery. This was done in order to take advantage of the new network of roads that had been built in the interior of the province.
In 1992 the Conference was divided into two Districts, with the East District taking in Port Blandford pastoral charge and areas east, and the West District including Glovertown and areas west. Terra Nova Presbytery was divided between the two Districts.
Wilfred Templeman (1908-1990), educator, fisheries biologist, was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland on 22 February 1908, son of Sarah (Fisher) and Charles Templeman. He married Eileen McGrath. Templeman died in St. John's on 5 April 1990.
After teaching in Newfoundland for several years (1924-27), Templeman was selected as the senior Jubilee scholar at Memorial University College, St. John's (1928). He studied fisheries biology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, and obtained a PhD at the University of Toronto (1933). Before his return to Newfoundland in 1936, Templeman was employed as a researcher with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (1930-33), and a lecturer at McGill University, Montreal.
Templeman was appointed head of the biology department at Memorial University College (1936), while continuing his marine research into lobster and capelin. He was appointed head of the Newfoundland Laboratory in 1944. Following Confederation (1949), Templeman became director of the federal Fisheries Biological Station, St. John's (1949-72). In the 1960s he chaired a standing committee on research and Statistics for the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) and published the standard reference work, Marine Resources of Newfoundland (1966). In 1972, Templeman was named the first J.L. Paton Professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries at Memorial University (1972). He was a member of the Fisheries and Oceans Research Advisory Council (1981-85), as well as a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing.
Templeman published more than 200 articles on North Atlantic fish species. He was one of the first fisheries biologists to highlight the impact of offshore technology on fish populations, noting in 1966 that the size of Newfoundland cod stocks and other fish species was diminishing. He also critiqued the ability of ICNAF to monitor fish stocks.
Templeman was the recipient of many honours, including an OBE (1948), selection as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (1950), and an honorary D.Sc. degree from Memorial University. In 1982, a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research vessel was named in his honour.
The telegraph office in Little Harbour, La Poile was established by the Government of Newfoundland, 1885.
Joseph Taylor (1662/3?-1734), naval officer and Commodore of Newfoundland, was born circa 1662 in England. He died on 23 May 1734.
Taylor joined the merchant service at the age of ten and the Royal Navy on 26 March 1690. On 2 January 1692/3 he was appointed master of HMS Roebuck. He served on a number of ships as first and second lieutenant over the next ten years. He was appointed Captain of his first ship, Charles Gally, on 15 February 1702/3. He served the Navy with distinction, notably in Spain (1708) and captured many enemy ships during his career.
On 31 May 1709 Taylor was made Commodore of the Newfoundland convoy and responsible for the attendant duties which accompanied that position. He arrived in St. John's on 16 August to find the town had been captured by French forces under the command of Saint-Ovide de Brouillan during the preceding winter. The fort and most of the town had been burnt to the ground. Taylor immediately set about rebuilding the fort using crewmen from the naval vessels Litchfield and Rye and naval stores. He encouraged the townspeople to rebuild their houses and other properties. Taylor was successful in having Fort William rebuilt as a stronger and larger fortification. After one year of service as commodore, Taylor returned to naval duty in Europe.
Gerald Crane Taverner was born in Montreal on July 19, 1928, to Colin Taverner, originally from Trinity, and Katherine Irene (nee Crane) of Whitbourne, Newfoundland. Educated at Lower Canada College and Le College de St. Cezaire de Rouville, he spent his entire career, over forty years, in the marine shipping world.
Employed at sea for six years, mainly in the West Indies and South America, he came ashore to work in various facets of the industry namely, stevedoring, agency and vessel management activities on the Eastern Seaboard. He later became involved with various shipping operations in many parts of the world, and ultimately took over the day-to-day management of vessels, both owned and time chartered by his employer of that time, Matthew Shipping Co. Ltd.
In 1969, he was invited to join Westshore Terminals, ultimately the largest marine bulk terminal on the west coast of the Americas, as Administrative Manager, arriving in Vancouver in January 1970 to take up the position prior to the commencement of Westshore’s operations in May of that year. Assigned to various management responsibilities, he ultimately held the position of Vice President from 1987 until retirement in May of 1991. Subsequent to retirement his services were retained in the capacity of Advisor to the President for a period of two years.
He later became an enthusiastic genealogist the main thrust of his research being the Taverner family tree. Mr. Taverner passed away in 2005 while residing in Delta, British Columbia.
Robert Holland Tait (1891-1964), lawyer, soldier, civil servant and writer, was born on 7 October 1891 in St. John's, Newfoundland, son of Sarah Elizabeth (Calkin) and physician James Sinclair Tait. On 23 August 1919 Tait married Margaret Gertrude Gibb in St. John's. They had two daughters. Tait died in Boston on 28 March 1964.
Robert (Bert) Tait was educated at Bishop Field College, graduating with honours. In 1908 he left Newfoundland for London University, England, but switched in 1910 to Trinity College, Oxford, after he won the Rhodes Scholarship for Newfoundland. While at Oxford, Tait was captain of the college football team and one of two Newfoundland members of the Oxford-Canadian hockey team which toured Europe. He graduated from Oxford in 1913 with a BA in Law and returned to Newfoundland to article under Alfred B. Morine. Subsequently, he attended University of King's College, Halifax, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law Degree (1914).
In 1914 Tait enlisted in the First Newfoundland Regiment (Royal Newfoundland Regiment) and was granted his commission as Lieutenant on 24 September 1914. A member of "The First Five Hundred", he left St. John's with the first contingent on the SS Florizel on 4 October, and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Belgium. Tait was appointed Captain on 10 January 1916. He was evacuated to hospital on 20 May 1916 and was spared action in the disastrous 1 July battle at Beaumont Hamel. Tait was appointed Adjutant on 23 May 1917. As a result of his actions at Poelcappelle he was awarded the Military Cross on 9 October 1917. He was wounded at Neuve Eglise (France) on 12 April 1918 during the Battle of Lys. He was then invalided to England on 15 April 1918 and embarked for Newfoundland on special duty on 22 May 1918. Tait was appointed Acting Major on 1 June 1919 while commanding the Discharge Depot at St. John's. He retired from active service on 6 October 1919.
After the war Tait resumed his law career; he was called to the Newfoundland Bar as a solicitor (1919) and as a barrister (1920). He served as Clerk of the Legislative Council (1919-23) until he moved to Boston, becoming the director of the Newfoundland Information Bureau. In 1924 Tait started The Newfoundland Weekly, a newspaper for expatriate Newfoundlanders living in Boston. In 1935 Tait moved to New York City to manage the Newfoundland Information Bureau. He also served as president of the Newfoundland War Veterans' Association of New York.
Tait was a writer whose publications included Unknown Newfoundland (1928), The Trail of the Caribou (1933), a narrative poem concerning the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, and Newfoundland: A Summary of the History and Development of Britain's Oldest Colony (1939). In the 1940s he completed a manuscript history of aviation in Newfoundland from 1919 to 1937.