Research Catalog

Title

True Newfoundlanders : early homes and families of Newfoundland and Labrador / Margaret McBurney and Mary Byers ; photography by John de Visser.

Author

McBurney, Margaret.

Publication

[Erin, Ont.] : Boston Mills Press ; Buffalo. N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by General Distribution Service, 1997

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Additional Authors

• Byers, Mary
• De Visser, John.

Description

240 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 26 cm.

Subject

• Dwellings > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Historic buildings > Newfoundland and Labrador
• Newfoundland and Labrador > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The Merchant Fiefdoms of the North -- Bonavista -- Fogo -- Twillingate -- Trinity -- Two Sealing Centres -- Newtown and Wesleyville -- Coaker and the Fishermen's Union -- Port Union -- Conception Bay -- Harbour Grace -- Carbonear -- Brigus -- Avondale and the Newfie Bullet -- The Avondale Station -- St. John's -- Soldiers and the Clergy -- The Governors -- Merchants and Politicians -- The Great Fire of 1892 -- Quidi Vidi -- Cape Spear -- The Avalon and Burin Peninsulas -- Ferryland -- Placentia -- Grand Bank -- The French Shore -- Port au Port and Corner Brook -- Lobster Cove Head -- The Northern Peninsula -- Sir Wilfred Grenfell and St. Anthony -- Labrador -- Battle Harbour and the Moravian Missions.

ISBN

1550461990 :

LCCN

^^^97190989^

OCLC

• 37820314
• SCSB-12892265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library