Life and Labour in Newfoundland : : Based on Lectures delivered at the Memorial University of Newfoundland / / Charles Fay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Fay, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1956
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

This study of Newfoundland is a brilliant combination of first-hand observation, and of research into fascinating source materials. Professor Fay made tours of Newfoundland and of Labrador and examined documentary material in London and the West Country. Both his observations and his source-material are fresh and stimulating, and he writes in his usual lively provocative style. Professor Fay relates the economic history of Newfoundland to the seafaring and commercial background of the Island's first inhabitants. Many parallels can be drawn between life in early Newfoundland and in the west of England where the enterprises which first discovered Newfoundland and its resources were founded. Despite legal restrictions on the growth of permanent settlements, Newfoundland developed inexorably from a simple fishery to a full-fledged colony. And just as Newfoundland could not help its progression from fishery to established settlement, so today it is inevitably pressing towards industrial maturity. The material in this volume is based upon a series of lectures first delivered in 1953 at Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. West Coast, Newfoundland, And West Country, England -- 2. South Devon And The Newman Records -- 3. Job's, Bowring's And Furness Withy -- 4. The Newfoundland Trade And Fishery -- 5. Epic Of The Seal Fishery -- 6. The Master Builders -- 7. The Architects Of Law And Liberty -- 8. From Fishery To Colony -- 9. The St. John's Chamber Of Commerce -- 10. Ordeal By Fire -- 11. Grand Falls And Corner Brook -- 12. Wabana, Aguathuna And Introduction To Knob Lake -- 13. The Labrador Potential -- Appendix I. Statutes -- Appendix II. Treaties -- Index