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

Main entry:

McBurney, Margaret.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-232) and index.
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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1550461990
9781550461992

Subject:

Dwellings Newfoundland and Labrador History.
Historic buildings Newfoundland and Labrador.
Habitations Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Histoire.
Maisons historiques Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
Dwellings.
Historic buildings.
Historic buildings Newfoundland.
Habitations Terre-Neuve Histoire.
Maisons historiques Terre-Neuve.
Newfoundland and Labrador Biography.
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Biographies.
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Canada, Newfoundland Genealogy.
Canada, Newfoundland Dwellings.
Canada, Newfoundland History.
Newfoundland Biography.
Terre-Neuve Biographies.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Byers, Mary.
De Visser, John.
Byers, Mary, 1933-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 192278
Call No.: ID FC2162.B93 CAN; ID:97-B3372
Status: Available

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