Research Catalog

Title

The Newfoundland character : an anthology of Newfoundland & Labrador writings / edited by D.W.S. Ryan and T.P. Rossiter.

Publication

St. John's : Jesperson Press, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ryan, D. W. S. (Donald Wilson Stanley), 1921-
• Rossiter, T. P. (Thomas Pius), 1939-

Description

147 p., [2] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Canadian literature > Newfoundland
• National characteristics, Canadian > Literary collections
• Newfoundland > Literary collections
• Labrador (N.L.) > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The People -- Newfoundland Seaman / E.J. Pratt -- The Fisherfolk of Newfoundland / P.T. McGrath -- Along the Southern Shore / Florence Miller -- What Charming Folk! / A.P. Herbert -- Salt Water Men / Capt. Jack Turner -- The Building of the Church / H.J.A. MacDermott -- Outport Heritage / A.R. Scammell -- An Antaen people / Farley Mowat -- A Motley Group -- Skipper Dick's Feast / H. Hardy -- A Dear Loss / Otto Kelland -- A Newfoundland Hero / author unknown -- "Nar a Sea Could Carry Un Off" / Norman Duncan -- "What Would You Do?" / A Grenfell social worker -- The Old Stoic Fishermen / Conard Trelawney Fitz-gerald, Jr. -- Learning by Experience -- Cyril Poole -- The Sea and the Land -- Shipwrecked / James Lumsden -- The loss of the Eliza / author unknow -- Ghost Trail of the White Eskimo / John E. Hood -- Halfway across: "Now or Never" / W.E. Cormack -- Total Loss: Grates Point / Michael Harrington -- The Greenland Disaster / author unknow --^
• The Fleet on "The Labrador" / Norman Duncan Fisherman?s Luck / Victor Kendall -- A Nurse Braves the Blizzard / Elliott Merrick -- Woods Talk / Tom Dawe -- Contentment on a River in Newfoundland / Ralph Webber -- History -- The Isle of Demons / Charles M. Skinner -- The First Settles on the French Shore / Canon J.T. Richards -- Newfoundland / P.E. Goldsmith -- Trenching at Gallipoli / John Gallishaw -- First Colony Goes to War / Morley Richards -- Which Way is Witless Bay? / Rupert Jackson -- "I Never Sold Fish for Money Before" / George Francis Durgin -- If I Did Not Survive / Victor Butler -- Shananditti / Keith Winter -- In the Very Early Days of Settlement / D.W.S. Ryan and T.P. Rossiter -- Culture -- The Legend of Ben's Rock / Wanda Neill Tolboom -- The Price of Fish / Percy Janes -- Brown Flour / Chris Cobb -- Fish and Brewis / author unknown -- A Marriage and a Promise / Heliuz Chandler Washburne -- A Thimble for a Wedding Ring / H.J.A. MacDerott --^
• A Crowd of Bold Sharemen / author unknown -- Squarin' Up / A.R. Scammell -- Crime Wave in Pigeon Inlet / Ted Russell -- The Old Schoolhouse / Mabel Avery -- May 24th (Trouter's Day in Newfoundland) / R.A. Parsons -- The Poor We Have With Us Always / Ray Guy -- Author and Title index.

ISBN

0920502334 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86180490^

OCLC

• 14413092
• SCSB-12795699

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library