Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949
Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949

Author: Peter Neary

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780773515185

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A collection of three dozen interviews conducted with gay men ranging in age from 24 to 84 who grew up in the rural Midwest, uncovering a much neglected aspect of the gay experience. The stories are at times touching and also deeply disturbing as they reminisce about the rigid gender roles common to farming communities, social isolation, racism, religious conservatism, and little information to help them make sense of their identities. The other side of the coin is the deep and loving feelings these men have for the land, their families, communities, and churches. Told sometimes from urban exile, and sometimes from the middle of the field, all the interviews have a brave openness in common. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Occupied St John's
Occupied St John's

Author: Steven C. High

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0773537503

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The stories and memories of those who lived through the Second World War in Newfoundland.

Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938
Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938

Author: Harry Paddon

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003-07-16

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0773570810

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Paddon's memoir gives the reader a sense of the resident Innu, Inuit, and settler communities, as well as the prevailing institutions of non-governmental authority: the Hudson's Bay Company, the Moravian Mission, and the International Grenfell Association. At a time when Labrador is undergoing further industrial development and social change, his writings, carefully edited and annotated by Ronald Rompkey, the biographer of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, capture the heart of the region and its people.

Twentieth-century Newfoundland
Twentieth-century Newfoundland

Author: James Hiller

Publisher: Breakwater Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781550810721

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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 further research. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on the Newfoundland and Labrador in the Twentieth century. This bibliography is organized by topic and will serve the needs of the general reader and specialists alike. Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations highlight the scope and complexity of present day writing about the history of Newfoundland and Labrador. James Hiller, Professor of History at Memorial University and author of a number of articles on Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Weste Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949(1998).