Entrée principale:

Tocque, Philip, 1814-1899.

Titre et auteur:

Newfoundland : as it was and as it is in 1877 / by Philip Tocque.

Publication:

Toronto : J.B. Magurn, 1878.

Description:

511 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
First settlement and general history, from 1497 to the appointment of the first civil governor in 1728 -- General history, from the appointment of the first civil governor in 1728 to 1877 -- District of St. John's -- District of Conception Bay -- District of Trinity Bay -- District of Bonavista Bay -- District of Fogo and Twillingate -- District of Ferryland -- District of Placentia and St. Mary's -- District of Burin -- History of Fortune Bay, St. Peter's, etc. -- St. George's Bay, Bay of Islands, etc. -- Labrador -- The fisheries -- Government, revenue, trade and shipping -- Population, religion and education -- Agricultural resources and manufactures -- Natural history -- Climate -- Meteorology -- Geology -- Mineralogy -- Zoology -- Botany -- The Red Indian, or Bœothicks.

Résumé:

Toque wrote this history of the people of Newfoundland "to show British and American reader that Newfoundland is something more than a mere fishing station, as well as to make Newfoundlanders themselves better acquainted with their own country" (preface).

Sujet:

Public buildings Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's.
Bâtiments publics Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador St. John's.
Public buildings
Travel
Public facilities.
Newfoundland and Labrador History.
Newfoundland and Labrador Description and travel.
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Descriptions et voyages.
Newfoundland and Labrador St. John's

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main canada 184907
Cote: FC2161 .T6 1878
Statut: Disponible