Research Catalog

Title

Breakers : stories from Newfoundland and Labrador / Paul O'Neill.

Author

O'Neill, Paul, 1928-

Publication

[Newfoundland : The author], c1982.

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Details

Description

iv, 138 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Newfoundland > History
• Labrador (N.L.) > History
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. Gaspar Corte Real -- The Firstcomer -- Chapter 2. Bay Bulls -- A Chronicle of Then and Now -- Chapter 3. The Wreck of the Anglo Saxon -- Chapter 4. Newfoundland's Dog in Fact and Fiction -- Chapter 5. Bishop Feild and His Masterpiece Cathedral -- Chapter 6. Ann Harvey -- Newfoundland's Grace Darling -- Chapter 7. An Outline of Labrador History -- Chapter 8. Peter Easton -- Pirate Admiral of the West Atlantic -- Chapter 9. The Garrison Mutiny and the Girl from Fogo -- Chapter 10. Who Done It? Newfoundland's Unsolved Murders -- Chapter 11. Humphrey Gilbert and the Birth of an Empire -- Chapter 12. The Trans Atlantic Cable to Heart's Content -- Chapter 13. Sir Wilfred Grenfell -- Labrador's Man of Legend -- Chapter 14. The First Nuns in British North America -- Chapter 15. Misfortune and Death -- The Seal Hunt Legacy -- Chapter 16. David Bennett -- Newfoundland's Sousa -- Chapter 17. Death by Tidal Wave -- The Burin Disaster -- Chapter 18. Two Women Who Dared to be Different -- Chapter 19. The U.S. Occupation of Newfoundland in 1941 -- Chapter 20. The U-Boat Sinking of the SS Caribou -- Chapter 21. Alcock and Brown -- First to Fly the Atlantic Non-stop.

ISBN

• 0919519229
• 0919519210 (hard)

LCCN

^^^88182261^

OCLC

19222362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library