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S.O. Steele & Sons Ltd., a Newfoundland family business, was established by Samuel Owen Steele in 1899 at 100 Water Street, St. John's. Steele emigrated from England to Newfoundland in the 1880s, and established a furniture and dry goods business in St. John's.

In 1886, Steele married Sarah Harris, niece and adopted daughter of James Hunt Martin and his wife Hannah (Tucker) Martin, both proprietors in their own right. James Martin, an English immigrant who had arrived in Newfoundland in the first half of the nineteenth century, had established a hardware store on Water Street. Hannah Martin opened a china shop circa 1848. The china shop was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892, but Hannah rebuilt it in 1894. Their children having died young, James and Hannah adopted Sarah Harris. After Hannah died intestate in 1899, Sarah inherited the china shop, thus making way for S.O. Steele & Sons Ltd. Hannah had operated the shop as a part-time concern but S.O. Steele expanded it into a full-time business by developing a wholesale trade, importing china from Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Europe, and later, Japan. Local firms, Ayre and Knowling, provided competition in the first decade of the twentieth century.

S.O. Steele's two eldest children, Owen William and James Robert, joined the family business. When war broke out in 1914, both sons enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Owen Steele was killed at Beaumont Hamel, but James Robert survived, returning to resume his position in the family business. Sarah and S.O. Steele retired to Paignton, Devon, England in the early 1920s, passing the firm to sons, James Robert and Victor.

The firm survived the depression of the 1930s and, like many others, thrived during World War II, with increased business stemming from the establishment of military bases in Newfoundland and the great influx of foreign military personnel to St. John's. In the 1940s, James Harris Steele, the second son of James Robert, entered the business, to work along with his father and uncle.

By the late 1960s, however, large chain stores were supplanting outport merchants, S.O. Steele's chief wholesale customers. Despite the decline, S.O Steele & Sons Ltd. survived by developing a strong retail trade to complement the wholesale business. This shift prompted the firm to import more expensive china which was of less value to the outport market.

James Robert Steele died in 1970, and Victor retired in 1976, leaving James to operate the business alone. When James retired in 1989, Victor's widow and son decided to close the business.The building at 100 Water Street was purchased by Breakwater Books who have restored and refurbished the century- old property.

The Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association (NONIA) was formally established in 1924. The aims of the organization were two-fold: to provide medical and health care to families of outport (rural) communities, and to support the nurses financially through the production and sale of knitted goods and other crafts by women in the regions served.

The nursing component of NONIA commenced when the Outport Nursing Association (ONA) was formed in 1920 by a group of prominent St. John's residents including Lady Constance Maria Harris (wife of the governor) and Lady Helena Squires (wife of the prime minister). Encouraged and supported by government, the ONA recruited four trained nurses in England (with expertise in midwifery) on two-year contracts and assigned one each to the communities of Hodges Cove in Trinity Bay, Rose Blanche on the south coast, Joe Batts Arm on Fogo Island and Daniels Harbour on the Northern Peninsula. The nurse at Daniels Harbour, Myra Grimsley (later Bennett) provided medical care to inhabitants along 200 miles of coastline. Salaries of the ONA nurses were initially provided by a government grant, but the association (and the government) had hoped the program could become self-sufficient and that the regions served might raise half of the nurses' salaries. When it was discovered that most were unable to raise this amount through subscription, a new strategy was devised.

In 1922 Lady Allardyce (wife of the next governor) suggested introducing "knitting circles" to produce goods for sale as a fund raiser, a plan used in the Shetland and Orkney Islands to support the war effort. Volunteer committees were organized to produce sweaters and knitted items. Each family was expected to provide the services of a volunteer worker. Weaving was introduced in some places (e.g. Pools Cove in Fortune Bay) with the aid of the International Grenfell Association (IGA). By these efforts, the industrial component of NONIA was organized and a crafts industry encouraged among outport women.

NONIA recruited nurses, mostly British, who were well-trained in all aspects of medical care, including midwifery, and who were able to work independently of doctors and hospitals. The association supplied them with dressings and drugs and guaranteed them a salary of $900 per annum. Between 1920 and 1934, forty-five NONIA nurses were stationed in twenty-nine outports, treated over 83,000 patients and made 230,000 home visits. Many found the work in the isolated and remote places very arduous and left after one term. In 1935 the Newfoundland Commission of Government established a cottage hospital system to provide medical facilities, nursing services and midwifery training in rural areas. The NONIA nurses became the first nurses employed by the newly-formed system under the Department of Health.

By 1925 the crafts component of NONIA involved 615 workers in 35 communities. After 1935 NONIA continued as a non-profit craft manufacturing and retailing operation. Released from the responsibility of having to subsidize nurses' salaries, NONIA was now able to contribute to the economic self-sufficiency of outport women by paying them on a piecemeal basis for their work. The number of production centres increased and the quality of goods was improved. NONIA goods became well-known for their excellence. In 1956 the association moved into wholesaling. In 1958 a retail store was opened at a prime location on Water Street in St. John's which still operates. In 1965 NONIA merged with the Jubilee Guilds (another crafts organization) and assumed control of their commercial operations. The latter organization then became the Women's Institute.

Deer Lake Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925 in the Humber Presbytery, Newfoundland and Labrador Conference of the United Church of Canada. The first minister was Rev. Stanley Tiller, and his appointments were Deer Lake and Howley. The Deer Lake congregation had been part of the Bay of Islands Mission since 1915.

Deer Lake is central between the Bay of Islands Mission and the White Bay Mission; congregations from both areas were, therefore, brought into the Deer Lake Pastoral Charge at its formation. The Howley congregation was part of that original charge. The first church was dedicated in Howley in 1929. Before that, church functions and services were held in the school house. With the exception of 1962-1977, when it was part of the Hampden Pastoral Charge, Howley remained in the pastoral charge until 1982 when it became part of the Pasadena-Howley Pastoral Charge.

In 1935, the congregation of South Brook was added to the Deer Lake Pastoral Charge. Midland was listed as part of the charge in the United Church yearbook of 1937, and Humber Valley was listed in 1948. Hampden also became a congregation of the charge in 1948. It separated and became the Hampden Pastoral Charge in 1962, but was re-united with the Deer Lake charge from 1977 to 1980. In 1980, it formed part of the Pasadena-Hampden Pastoral Charge, and then was incorporated into the Hampden-Sop's Arm Pastoral Charge. Meanwhile, Cormack was transferred from the Hampden Pastoral Charge to the Deer Lake Pastoral charge in 1973.

In 1955, a second church, St. Paul's United Church, was opened in Deer Lake. The congregation of that church grew over the next three decades to such an extent that by 1984, it comprised the only congregation in the Deer Lake Pastoral Charge.

Methodism in St. George's Bay dates back to at least the 1860s, for in 1867, it was reported that Methodists had settled at South Side (St. George's) and were holding "cottage services" there. The St. George's Mission was created in 1883 in the Burin District of the Methodist Church of Canada, Newfoundland Conference. Its first pastor was Rev. William Rex, who found, upon his arrival, a church with about 20 members and a Mr. A. Cutler acting as a lay reader.

The present-day pastoral charge includes churches in St. George's, Heatherton, and Stephenville. However, the boundaries of the earlier mission changed frequently as St. George's became associated with the Bay of Islands (1886-1902) and other times with Channel (St. George's was part of Channel mission in 1861). The boundaries of the first mission went from Robinson's Head to Boswarlos. In 1873, Bonne Bay was listed as being part of the mission, and in 1886 an agreement was made for the minister stationed at St. George's to spend 6 months at St. George's, and 6 months at Bay of Islands.

The first church in St. George's was opened in 1878. A new structure was built in 1938, and another in 1974. A church was also erected at Sandy Point in 1883-1884. Rev. J. T. Newman reported in 1891 that a school-chapel was being constructed at Boswarlos. The first church opened there in 1909 and was replaced by another in 1961. An 1892 report from Heatherton stated that a house had been purchased there for use as a parsonage. A school-chapel was opened there in 1909, and a new church, in 1955. The Heatherton church was replaced with a new structure in 1981. In 1949, United Church services began in Stephenville with a congregation of 46, and in 1957, a new church was opened there.

Elijah Batson owned and operated a general store at Trinity, Newfoundland, from 1934 to 1961. Before 1934, he was a clerk or junior bookkeeper at Ryan Brothers Ltd., Trinity. Initially, his business was located at the old Lockyer premises near the Green Forge, but he had relocated to the Commercial Stores property opposite the Royal Bank by 1938. By 1956, Batson had again moved the operation to the Erickson premises.

E. Batson sold groceries, hardware, and dry goods, which was typical of general stores in that era. The firm was atypical because it did not deal in codfish, only accepting cash or credit as a medium of exchange. In the twentieth century, many smaller outport firms like E. Batson began relying on the increasing pool of potential customers who carried cash and were not bound by credit and debt to the large fish merchants such as Ryan Brothers, Limited. The business closed when Elijah Batson died in 1961.

The exact date of the establishment of the Cubs Baseball Club, a St. John's men's team, is not currently known. However, it was one of the four original teams in the St. John's Baseball League, established in 1913. The team had considerable success in the early years of the League, winning several of the "Garden Party" series, under the auspices of Mount Cashel Orphanage. The St. John's Baseball League became inactive following the 1922 summer season.

The Cubs renewed their membership in the St. John's Baseball League when it was reestablished in 1927, but they do not appear to have been as successful. By 1934 the League was recommending that the Cubs consider amalgamation with the team fielded by the Methodist Guards Amateur Athletic Association. The collapse of the League itself in that year may have made this move unnecessary.

Emmanuel House (formerly the United Church Community Centre), St. John's, Newfoundland was started in 1938 by Stella Burry, a deaconess with the church. The Centre initially functioned as a social welfare and educational institution with a very strong emphasis on the needs of girls and women. By 1944, the services provided included: clubs for fellowship, study, thrift, and working women; a women's cooperative credit union (formerly a buying club); Saturday night friendly teas; progress for women in the armed forces; lenten classes; a Christian education program, National Girls in training; cooking classes; vacation schools; and Explorer groups. In addition, the Centre provided counseling, welfare work, visitation, welcoming to strangers, advice on employment and Christmas cheer work.

In 1945 the Centre burned, and a large house on Cochrane Street was acquired. It had formerly been used by the Canadian YWCA War Services as a centre for women serving in the war. This home, which had a ground floor suitable for outreach activities and two floors which could be used for a residence, became United Church House. By 1947, the Centre was providing subsidized accommodation for young working girls on an interim basis until they could afford regular housing rates. In 1951 the Centre became Emmanuel House, named after a Church in Montreal which had been closed and sold from which the funds received were used to repair the Centre in St. John's.

Emmanuel House responded to changing social needs in the community. In 1965, the residential accommodation became a hostel for visitors to St. John's on medical appointments. In 1978, the management board decided to place more emphasis on services to former psychiatric patients. The Centre also became involved in providing counseling service (marriage, family and individual). Between 1984 and 1995 Emmanuel House programs were focused on social issues such as counseling for survivors of sexual abuse and sexual offenders; affordable housing; group therapy for males involved in physical violence against women; and education programs for imprisoned sexual offenders.

The founder, Stella Burry, studied at the Methodist (United Church) Training College and the School of Social Work in Toronto and was appointed social worker with the United Church in St. John's in 1938. She ran the social outreach centre (Emmanuel House) for 26 years and was the Director of the United Church hostel 1946-8. In 1964, the direction of the House came under Lottie Campbell.

In 1995 Emmanuel House, together with the Naomi Centre (an outreach program for homeless young women), was placed under the newly-formed Stella Burry Corporation with a board of directors. A Stella Burry Memorial Fund was also established to support the goals of the Corporation which were: to provide food, clothing and shelter to those in need; to develop self-help programs and services; and to encourage social action initiatives related to equality and social justice; or, in other words, to operationalize the beliefs and values of Dr. Stella Burry.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Games are multi-sport competition whose objective is to encourage the youth of Newfoundland and Labrador to participate in athletic competition "with an emphasis on development and excellence". Regional sports competitions have been held in Newfoundland and Labrador since the early 1970s, but the first official Newfoundland and Labrador Games were not held until the summer of 1976. Summer Games have alternated with Winter Games in a two-year rotation since that time. Regional teams compete for the Premier's Cup (for the highest number of points), the Sport Newfoundland and Labrador Trophy (for the most improved region) and, since 1990, the Lieutenant-Governor's Award (for the region judged most spirited and sportsmanlike). A list of host communities is as follows:
Summer Games: 1976, Stephenville-Corner Brook; 1980, Burin Peninsula; 1984, Botwood-Bishop's Falls; 1988, Mount Pearl; 1992, Harbour Grace-Carbonear; 1996, Conception Bay South; 2000, Mount Pearl.; Winter Games: 1978, Gander-Grand Falls; 1982, Labrador City-Wabush; 1987, Corner Brook; 1990, Lewisporte; 1994, Clarenville; 1998, Labrador City-Wabush.

St. Peter's initially was established as a mission of Mary Queen of the World Parish (Mount Pearl) in 1977. Members of the Capuchin congregation administering Mary Queen of the World held Sunday mass in the newly constructed St. Peter's Elementary School to serve the growing Catholic population in Mount Pearl's Newtown area. On 1 September 1982, Alphonsus L. Penney, Archbishop of St. John's, dismembered Mary Queen of the World Parish, detaching the Newtown territory to canonically erect St. Peter's Parish. The gymnasium at St. Peter's Elementary served as the parish's centre until 12 September 1985, when the newly constructed St. Peter's Chapel, annexed to O'Donel High School's gymnasium, was officially opened and dedicated by Archbishop Penney. Currently, a parish church is under construction at 112 Ashford Drive. A sod-turning ceremony was held 22 July 2001 and construction is expected to be completed in 2002.

A Steering Committee was established in 1982, charged with the responsibility of studying and reporting on the most appropriate administrative structure for the parish. The following year, the Committee recommended the establishment of a Parish Council to be comprised of the pastor, pastoral assistants, six members at large, the principals of the parochial schools, a parish member on the school board, and a parish member on the Diocesan Pastoral Council. (Information is not available on the current structure of the Parish Council. Denominational education reforms likely have altered its composition.) The first Parish Council was elected in 1984.

Other committees and lay societies established to share in the administration of the parish include the Liturgy Committee, the Administrative Committee, the Social Committee, the Christian Service Committee, the Finance Committee, the Building Fund Committee, the Planning and Building Committee, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and the Legion of Mary (this list is not exhaustive).

St. Peter's Parish maintained close relations with Catholic schools in Mount Pearl, including St. Peter's Elementary on Munden Drive, St. Peter's Primary on Ashford Drive, and O'Donel High on Ruth Avenue. These schools are no longer under church control as a result of denominational education reforms passed by the Provincial Government in 1997.

Pastors who have served St. Peter's Parish since its establishment in 1982 include: Raymond Lahey (1982-1986); Francis A. Coady (1986-1987); William K. Lawton (1987-1990); Louis Mousseau, Administrator (1990-1991); and Charles Kelly (1991- ).