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Title

Rough food : the seasons of subsistence in Northern Newfoundland / John T. Omohundro.

Author

Omohundro, John T.

Publication

St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, c1994.

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Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research

Description

xx, 390 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Social and economic studies, 0847-0898 ; no. 54

Uniform Title

Social and economic studies (St. John's, N.L.) ; no. 54.

Subject

• Home economics, Rural > Great Northern Peninsula
• Food supply > Seasonal variations > Great Northern Peninsula
• Aliments > Variations saisonnières. > Nord, Péninsule
• Économie domestique en milieu rural > Nord, Péninsule
• Food supply > Seasonal variations > Northern Peninsula
• Home economics, Rural > Northern Peninsula
• Great Northern Peninsula (N.L.) > Rural conditions
• Nord, Péninsule (T.-N.) > Conditions rurales

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-377) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: 1. The Road In -- 2. Vicissitudes -- 3. Variations -- 4. Strategies -- Part II: 5. Evolution of a Tradition -- 6. Decline and Persistence -- Part III: Photo Portfolio 1: From the Land -- 7. Summer: June-August -- 8. Fall: September-November -- 9. Winter: December-February -- 10. Spring: March-May -- Photo Portfolio 2: From the Sea -- Part IV: 11. Environmental Change: The Natural -- 12. Environmental Change: The Regulatory Bureaucracy -- 13. The Road Out -- Appendix: Scientific Names -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ISER Books -- Maps, Figures and Tables -- Maps: 1. Great Northern Peninsula -- 2. Main Brook and Vicinity -- 3. Hare Bay -- 4. Plum Point and Vicinity -- 5. Conche Peninsula -- 6. The Proposed Grenfell Trail -- Figures: 1. Population Structure, Main Brook, 1961 and 1990 -- 2. Household Size, Main Brook, 1935-1990 -- 3. Population, Three Northern Peninsula Communities 1935-1990 -- 4. Population, Conche, 1857-1990 --^
• 5. Population Structure, Conche, 1945-1990 -- 6. Household Size, Conche, 1857-1990 -- 7. Percentage of Households Gardening, by Socioeconomic Status, Main Brook and Conche, 1982 -- 8. Percentage of Households Gardening, by Number of Household Workers, Main Brook and Conche, 1982 -- 9. Percentage of Households Gardening, by Number of Household Income Earners, Main Brook and Conche, 1982 -- 10. Percentage of Households Gardening, by Age of Female Household Head, Main Brook and Conche, 1982 -- Tables: 1. Standard of Living, Main Brook and Conche, 1971 -- 2. The Hierarchy of Responses to Environmental Changes Available to Main Brook Households -- 3. Crops and Animals, Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland -- 4. Agricultural production Per Capita, Newfoundland, 1857-1935 -- 5. Inhabitants of Newfoundland, 1675 -- 6. Warm Weather Crops in Twentieth-Century Newfoundland Gardens -- 7. Animal Husbandry in Main Brook, Conche and Plum Point, 1935 -- 8. Moose Hunting Success in Main Brook, 1989 --^
• 9. Rabbit Catches, Main Brook and Conche, 1989-1990 -- 10. Trends in Home Production Activities, Main Brook and Conche, 1949-1990 -- 11. Common Themes in Future Scenarios of Main Brook Leaders, 1990 -- 12. Amount of Grass Cut for Winter Fodder, Selected Newfoundland Communities.

ISBN

0919666825

LCCN

^^^95197228^

OCLC

• 30976888
• SCSB-12471492

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Harvard Library