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Book The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright

Download or read book The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright written by George Cartwright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), an English merchant who spent time in Labrador between 1770 and 1786, is best known for the fascinating account of his experiences provided in his Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador (1792). In recent years more of his papers have been discovered and stand alongside his journal as important source material for the early colonial period in the Atlantic region. Transcribed from original documents and extensively annotated by Marianne Stopp, the new papers deal with practical matters such as how to build a house in a sub-arctic climate, the best methods of sealing, trapping, and salmon fishing, as well as merchant rivalries and trade with Aboriginal groups. Cartwright's papers are of value for what they tell us about early methods and materials; Stopp's detailed introduction provides a history of Cartwright's Labrador and discusses these new papers with respect to early architecture, ethnohistory, material culture, and Inuit studies.

Book Newfoundland   Labrador

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  • Author : Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Newfoundland Labrador written by Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoir

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 680 pages

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Book George Cartwright s The Labrador Companion

Download or read book George Cartwright s The Labrador Companion written by Marianne P. Stopp and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New manuscripts directly related to Canada’s history rarely come to light. The Labrador Companion, written in 1810 by Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), and discovered in 2013, is a fascinating and unusual find because of its level of detail, its setting in a hardly studied part of Britain’s fur-trade empire, and because it is a personal account rather than a trade outfit ledger or government document. This annotated edition transcribes The Labrador Companion in full. Cartwright documented the everyday work of Labrador’s particular kind of fur-trade life based on his experiences operating a series of merchant stations in southern Labrador between 1770 and 1786. Although his focus is firmly on instruction in the manifold ways of capturing animals, he also provides rare glimpses of Innu and Inuit life as well as of housekeeping and gardening. The Labrador Companion includes a lengthy description of Labrador’s fauna – of land, sea, and air – that counts among Canada’s earliest natural history writing based on first-hand observation. A revealing account of fur-trade-era technology, methods, and materials, conveyed through one man’s acquired knowledge and skills, The Labrador Companion gives a close-to-the-ground picture of the resource industries that were at the heart of British, and French, colonial presence in the Canadian northeast.

Book Canadian Selection

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  • Author : Alvan Bregman
  • Publisher : Published for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and the Centre for Research in Librarianship, University of Toronto [by] University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Canadian Selection written by Alvan Bregman and published by Published for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and the Centre for Research in Librarianship, University of Toronto [by] University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physiography of Nova Scotia

Download or read book Physiography of Nova Scotia written by James Walter Goldthwait and published by F.A. Acland. This book was released on 1924 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geography and Geology of Lake Melville District

Download or read book Geography and Geology of Lake Melville District written by Edward Martin Kindle and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fish into Wine

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  • Author : Peter E. Pope
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 0807839175
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Fish into Wine written by Peter E. Pope and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery. The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for wine served the fishery by catering to nascent consumer demand. The English Shore became a hub of transatlantic trade, linking Newfoundland with the Chesapeake, New and old England, southern Europe, and the Atlantic islands. Pope gives special attention to Ferryland, the proprietary colony founded by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1621, but later taken over by the London merchant Sir David Kirke and his remarkable family. The saga of the Kirkes provides a narrative line connecting social and economic developments on the English Shore with metropolitan merchants, proprietary rivalries, and international competition. Employing a rich variety of evidence to place the fisheries in the context of transatlantic commerce, Pope makes Newfoundland a fresh point of view for understanding the demographic, economic, and cultural history of the expanding North Atlantic world.

Book Life on the Last Frontier

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  • Author : Ben Powell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780920884430
  • Pages : 252 pages

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Book A L A  Catalog

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  • Author : American Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

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Book Adult Catalog  Subjects

Download or read book Adult Catalog Subjects written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas written by New York Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1974-10 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Book Canadiana

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  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1116 pages

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Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: