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Introduction In June 1946, under the terms of an Act passed by the British-appointed Commission of Government that had been administering Newfoundland since 1934, a National Convention was elected in [...]

Joseph Roberts Smallwood was, and remains, a man of myth--myth of his own making and myth made by others, both friend and enemy. During his long career in Newfoundland politics--he [...]

In memoriam collegarum meorum Ioannis Bruce, Iacobi Butrica, Ioannis Whittaker Since the founding of Memorial University College (MUC) in 1925 and the establishment of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in [...]

A copy of a letter addressed 'to the right honourable Charles, Earle of Nottingham' is preserved in a manuscript collection in the library of Christ Church College, Oxford. (1) The [...]

In 1844, August Freitag, a Moravian missionary and trade-brother in Okak, wrote an extended letter to his family that described his work in Okak, Labrador. Freitag, born on 10 March [...]

This paper lays out a spatial, archaeological, and cultural framework for studying the Basque cod fishery in southern Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. From the first half of the sixteenth century onward, [...]

Known since the 1980s as a 'French' shipwreck, the underwater remains of a wooden sailing ship at Isle aux Morts in southwest Newfoundland, near Port-aux-Basques, shed light on the transatlantic [...]

Introduction This text explores three aspects that have marked the colonial historiography of Atlantic Canada: the opposition of some French Basques to the control of the French colonial administration; their [...]

INTRODUCTION ON NOVEMBER 3, 1908 William Ford Coaker (1871-1938) formed the Fishermen's Protective Union (FPU) at Herring Neck, Notre Dame Bay, to lobby the Newfoundland Government for legislative changes favourable [...]

THE IDEA OF NEWFOUNDLAND as a place is, for the most part, based upon its representation in British texts associated with the North Atlantic fishery, by means of an imperial [...]

The Badger Riot by J.A. Ricketts. Flanker Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-89731732-7 The Flannigans by M.T. Dohaney. Flanker Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-89731706-8 1892 by Paul Butler. Flanker Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-897317-28-0 [...]

The man of the past is alive in us today to a degree undreamt of before .... Carl Jung, 'The Concept of the Collective Unconscious' (47) We want to take [...]

FOR THE PAST TWENTY YEARS, Newfoundland Mi'kmaq have been active in the revitalization of their culture. (1) Among other initiatives, their efforts have resulted in a Mi'kmaq language program in [...]

THIS YEAR MARKS the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Newfoundland Studies. That is no small accomplishment; many academic enterprises have had shorter life spans. Its success reflects the [...]