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Mischief in High Places: The Life and Times of Sir Richard Squires
$22.95
Mischief in High Places examines the spectacular career and personal life of the man who, in 1919, first became elected prime minister of Newfoundland. The political successes of Sir Richard Squires'...
Bottoms Up
$21.95
Bottoms Up
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In 1617, Lord Falkland’s colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops,...
Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate
$19.95
From Newfoundland’s role as a sanctuary for the displaced immigrants of the Irish-Catholic diaspora to a Catholic Bishop’s plea to an English monarch, and from the stories of relics and...
The Invisibles
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The Invisibles
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During the tumultuous and often violent election riots of 1861, members of the Royal Newfoundland Companies opened fire on a crowd of rioters, killing three and wounding several others. In...
Regatta
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Regatta
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The Royal St. John’s Regatta is North America’s oldest continuous sporting event, and is set to publically celebrate its 200th anniversary. In this fascinating and entertaining history, Jack Fitzgerald tells...
Game
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Game
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The early 1970s marked the beginning of Newfoundland’s cultural renaissance. And in 1974, amidst the music, literature, and burgeoning patriotic pride, a young, upstart Reach for the Top team from...
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume III
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"Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume III: Classic Spy Tales and Epic Sea Adventures the 41st book by Jack Fitzgerald. It is a stunning collection of true Newfoundland stories...
Robert Bond
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Robert Bond
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The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the...
Rum-runners and Mobsters
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Rum-runners and Mobsters
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Prohibition in the United States created new opportunities for organized crime to make profits even they couldn't imagine. It did not take long for the mobsters to push out the...
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume II
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Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories Volume II: Amazing and Strange is a substantial collection of tales from times long gone. Included are yarns of Newfoundland's people and places, ranging...
The Long Run
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The Long Run
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On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson...
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume I
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Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories Volume I: True Crime and Adventure is a thrilling collection of Newfoundland stories, featuring some of the most spectacular crimes, brutal murder cases and...
When the Great Red Dawn Is Shining
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On their march towards the Somme, and Beaumont Hamel, the young men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment raised their voices to sing “When the Great Red Dawn is Shining,” a...
Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol 2: Notre Dame Bay to Petty Harbour
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The fishery, the seal cull, the settlement, the culture—the history of Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped and witnessed from the deck of sea-going vessels, and those vessels were sparred...
Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland
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Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland pulls back the curtains of time to reveal a hidden side of everyday life in old-time Newfoundland. From gripping tales of the Irish influx...
Life Lines
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Life Lines
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African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942 – a turn of events that...
Bridging the Gap
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Bridging the Gap
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Bridging the Gap is the colourful story of the 300-year creation of the St. John's Regional Fire Department. This extraordinary narrative mirrors the military and political history of a province...
Newfoundland's Era of Corruption
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In Newfoundland's Era of Corruption: Responsible Government 1855-1933 Jack Fitzgerald delves deep into the political records of the Responsible Government era in Newfoundland to reveal the widespread corruption and incompetence...
Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol 1
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The fishery, the seal cull, the settlement, the culture—the history of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped and witnessed from the deck of sea-going vessels, and those...
In The Field
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In The Field
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FREELANCE WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT Joan Sullivan’s book In the Field is a work of non-fiction that tells the story of one young Newfound¬lander soldier, Stephen Norris, lost in WWI, and...
1949
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1949
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1949 is an historic, non-fictional account of the role one man played in breaking the shackles that kept Britain's oldest colony in a state of permanent poverty and who led...
Other Side of Midnight, The
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Other Side of Midnight, The
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The first St. John's taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within...
Spring Rice Document, The
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Spring Rice Document, The
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Within ten days of the Newfoundland Governor receiving the 'Spring Rice Document', two armed patrol vessels, each carrying an armed forty man unit of the Newfoundland Regiment, were on their...
Heroes and Rogues and the Story of Heart's Content
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In 2009, author Ted Rowe published his fascinating book about the transatlantic cable called Connecting the Continents. The narrative of that 1866 miracle of engineering brought the outport of Heart's...
St. John's
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St. John's
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A concise, comprehensive overview of the oldest city in North America. St John’s: A Brief History describes how, through war and the fishery, Newfoundland became settled, a colony, a Dominion...
Lookout, The
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Lookout, The
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For centuries, Signal Hill has dominated both the skyline of St. John's, Newfoundland, and the hearts and minds of its residents. The Lookout traces the hill's remarkable history as a...
Giant's Dream
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Giant's Dream
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This book invites the reader, through stunning photographs and vivid words, to accompany Giant (Michel Andrew) as he journeys 400 kilometres across northeastern Nitassinan (Labrador) on snowshoes pulling a toboggan....
Battlefront Newfoundland
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Battlefront Newfoundland
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Newfoundlanders initially viewed World War II as a foreign conflict and believed that the violence in Europe could not spread to these shores. That complacency was shaken on March 3,...
Island Maid
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Island Maid
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Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared...
Orations
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Orations
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A selection of orations from Memorial’s convocations. Including a foreword by Rex Murphy and an Introduction by Shane O’Dea. Orations about Jean Chrétien, John Crosbie, Elizabeth Penashue, Christopher Pratt, Mary...
Known Unto God
$29.95
Known Unto God
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The Newfoundland armed forces suffered devastating losses during World War I. Known unto God is a memorial to the men in these forces who died during the war and who have no...
Remarkable Stories of Newfoundland
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Jack Fitzgerald, arguably Newfoundland's best-known raconteur, has spent years collecting material for his Remarkable Stories of Newfoundland. His many fans will find this latest work fascinating, spine-tingling, humorous and nostalgic....
Connecting the Continents
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Connecting the Continents
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In July of 1866, the village Heart's Content on the east coast of Newfoundland attracted the attention of Canada and the entire world. A submarine telegraph cable had been stretched...
A Trip to Labrador
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A Trip to Labrador
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A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister...
The Beothuk
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The Beothuk
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A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of...
Rig
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Rig
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In the early hours of February 15, 1982, tragedy struck the Ocean Ranger oil rig when it capsized and sank in a severe weather storm 170 nautical miles east of...
Silk Sails
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Silk Sails
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As Silk Sails entertainingly demonstrates, existing records show that women of the Atlantic region were owners of boats, ships and waterfront properties from as early as 1650. Women's involvement in...
The Jack Ford Story
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The Jack Ford Story
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The Jack Ford Story: The Newfoundlander in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival. In 1940, Jack Ford was an employee of the Newfoundland Railway in a...
Peril on the Sea
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Peril on the Sea
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Saturday, February 27th, 1892, dawned unreasonably warm and clear. Rising early to take advantage of the fine weather, two hundred men and boys from many Trinity Bay communities left in...
A Corner Boy Remembers
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A Corner Boy Remembers
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A Story of Memoirs In A Corner Boy Remembers, author Frank Kennedy remembers how times were so different when he was growing up in St. John's. Containing more than70 photographs,...
The Miners of Wabana
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The Miners of Wabana
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For seventy-one years, iron ore was mined at Wabana, Bell Island: half the output was used in Canada; the other half was shipped around the world. When the mine shut...
Charlie Baker George
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Charlie Baker George
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Additional information from two survivors and two Sabena pilots compliment this popular bestseller. In the cold dark of an early September morning, the crew and passengers of a Sabena Airlines...
Untold Stories
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Untold Stories
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This book has ten chapters of compelling reading, with topics dealing with the province's curiosities, war time secrets, the characters of olde St. John's, stories of underground vaults and tunnels...
The Sinking of The Titanic
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The Sinking of The Titanic
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Few human events have stirred the imagination, inspired myths and movies and had such a hold upon the weste world as the sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic....
Beyond Belief
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Beyond Belief
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St. John's, with its 500 year history, is fertile ground for story tellers. Rogues and revivalists, pirates and politicians, soldiers and shysters have all had a hand in shaping its...
Viking Discovery of America
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Viking Discovery of America
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Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands...
Hangman is Never Late, The
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Hangman is Never Late, The
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A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks...
Suspended State
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Suspended State
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This dramatic re-appraisal of the background to the suspension of democratic institutions in Newfoundland in the early 1930s argues that the events of this period laid the foundation for Confederation...
The Labradorians
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The Labradorians
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Explorer Jacques Cartier dismissed it as the land God gave to Cain, but generations of people from widely differing cultures living in dense wilderness conditions have forged the people of...
John Cabot and the Matthew
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Just who discovered America's mainland? As Ian Wilson shows in John Cabot and the Matthew, it was John Cabot, and a West Country crew of just 18, who left Bristol,...
Catucto
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Catucto
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With the depth and feeling of a man whose subject is close to his heart, Poole chronicles the history of nineteenth century Battle Harbour using excerpts from diaries and period...
Twentieth Century Newfoundland
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Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations brings together ten papers by eight well-known historians of Newfoundland and Labrador. The papers address a wide variety of subject matter and open many avenues for...
The Ice Hunters
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The Ice Hunters
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The demand for oil to light and lubricate the industrial world changed the face of much of the planet. Newfoundland was part of this widespread transformation as migratory cod fishermen...
The Two Traditions
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The Two Traditions
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Newfoundland is well known for the strong traditions and folklore of its English-speaking inhabitants. Until recently, however, few outside this province realized that there is also a small but vigorous...
The Beothuk of Newfoundland
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The Beothuk of Newfoundland
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A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts...
Rattles and Steadies
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Rattles and Steadies
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Gander is one of the best known small towns in the world, especially among weste and easte Europeans. Russians know it with familiarity. This book is not about Gander, however,...
Fish Out of Water
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Fish Out of Water
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Shannon Ryan was bo and received his early education in Riverhead, Harbor Grace. He has studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland (BA (Ed.), BA, MA), the University of London (Ph.D.)...
Amazing Newfoundland Stories
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The popularity of Jack Fitzgerald's Notebook resulted in a second collection of stories of unusual, supernatural and legendary events relating to Newfoundland and its inhabitants. Amazing Newfoundland Stories includes unique...
The German Canadians 1750-1937
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In tracing the pioneering role that German-speaking settlers from all over Europe and America played in the opening up and development of large parts of eastern and western Canada, Lehmann...
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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Attracted by Labrador's unexplored vastness, two American adventurers embark on an ill-planned attempt to traverse Labrador by canoe. Having ingnored the advice of the local guide, the leader of the...
Forty Eight Days Adrift
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Forty Eight Days Adrift
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Captain Joe Barbour was born in Newton, Bonavista Bay, in 1898. He began sailing as a boy and at the age of twenty-one he first became master of a vessel....
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