It was a snowy, stormy night, that February 23, 1918, when the sturdy S.S. Florizel steamed out of St. John’s harbour, bound for Halifax and New York. Captain William Martin, a cautious and competent skipper, encountered thick...
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Author:Brown, CassieSummary:
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
A collection of true Christmas stories by Gary Collins, Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller!
Gary Collins invites us to live again the gone forever. These stories embody the soul of Christmas in outport Newfoundland...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
One cold day in 1929, a tsunami strikes the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland and suddenly twelve-year-old Murphy is doing a man's work, saving lives and caring for the people he loves.
Murphy wants to grow up fast and be a...
- Author:Procter, AndreaSummary:
Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought...
- Author:Ryan, ShannonSummary:
The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade, the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland...
- Author:Ingstad, BenedicteSummary:
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Among the bays, inlets, and communities of the province, author Gary Collins has earned a seat at the head of the table as Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller. Now, with six books under his belt, the “Story Man” from Hare...
- Author:Frost, Sydney, Roberts, EdwardSummary:
This memoir is unique. It is by far the most complete account of World War I by any member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Sydney Frost, a young Nova Scotian, was working in St. John’s at The Bank of Nova Scotia when the First World...