Author: Genevieve Lehr
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: songbook, newfoundland, sing, come
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2003-10-18
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0802065864
ISBN-13: 9780802065865

Newfoundlanders have long and lustily sung their folksongs, and the tradition remains strong today. Despite modern influences, the old songs persist, mixed with new songs that are composed to record the events of our time. This is the first major collection of Newfoundland folksongs compiled and edited by native Newfoundlanders. It concentrates on songs of local composition largely ignored by earlier collectors and presents a significant number of songs never before published.For most of the last decade Lehr and Best have been travelling around the island recording the voices and favourite son

Authors:Wilcox, Charlotte,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: dogs, learning, newfoundland
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 073680160X
ISBN-13: 9780736801607

Introduces the history, development, uses, and care of the Newfoundland, the dog breed known for lifesaving and search-and-rescue work. Includes photo diagram and general facts about dogs.

Author: Ingeborg Marshall
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Keywords: people, vanished, newfoundland, beothuk
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1989-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0920911188
ISBN-13: 9780920911181

A wonderful history of the Red Indian of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuck life-housing, clithing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers.

Author: Al Pittman
Publisher: Breakwater
Keywords: series, poetry, newfoundland, sixty, thirty
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-11-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1550811541
ISBN-13: 9781550811544

Author: J.D. House
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: newfoundland, labrador, renewal, economic, battling, tide
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-09-11
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0802044506
ISBN-13: 9780802044501

Following his appointment by Premier Brian Peckford in 1985 to chair a Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment, Douglas House was seconded to head the Economic Recovery Commission in 1989. This body was formed during the premiership of Clyde Wells to address the need for significant social and economic reform in Newfoundland and Labrador. In the process of initiating this restructuring, however, House was struck by the unyielding strength of the bureaucratic barriers of provincial government.Against the Tide is House’s account of the commission’s seven years of struggle wit

Author: Randall Maggs
Publisher: Breakwater
Keywords: series, poetry, newfoundland, departures, timely
Number of Pages: 63
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1550811088
ISBN-13: 9781550811087

Authors:W J. Kirwin, G.M. Story, J. D.A. Widdowson,
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: supplement, second, english, newfoundland, dictionary
Number of Pages: 847
Published: 1990-11-01
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0802068197
ISBN-13: 9780802068194

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English". The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, and to the seventeenth to the nineteenth century immigrants chiefly from south-eastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers and magazines, this book