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Book Forgotten Labrador

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cleophas Belvin
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2006-11-15
  • ISBN : 0773580840
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Forgotten Labrador written by Cleophas Belvin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Labrador recounts the history of a remarkable area of Canada - the Quebec part of the Labrador coast that extends eastward from Kegashka to Blanc Sablon. Cleophas Belvin describes the arrival of the Aboriginals and the activities of the Breton and Basque fishermen and French- and English-speaking merchants from Quebec City who controlled the region for more than one hundred and fifty years. He paints a vivid picture of the lifestyle and living conditions of the early French- and English-speaking pioneers and their descendants, offering an analysis of why they settled in the region and how they dealt with the precariousness of the seal, salmon, and cod fisheries. The Forgotten Labrador also explores the role of the Anglican and Catholic missionaries, the establishment of educational, medical, transportation, and communication services, and the various government and local initiatives that were undertaken to provide the people with some form of economic prosperity.

Book Review of historical publications relating to Canada

Download or read book Review of historical publications relating to Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada  Index  Vols  XI XX

Download or read book Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada Index Vols XI XX written by Laura Mason and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.

Book The Exploited Seas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Poul Holm
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-18
  • ISBN : 178694913X
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Exploited Seas written by Poul Holm and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.

Book Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador  1766

Download or read book Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador 1766 written by Averil M. Lysaght and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of voyage on board Niger, 1766, scientific manuscripts, and detailed account of his biological collections.

Book Francisco L  pez de G  mara s General History of the Indies

Download or read book Francisco L pez de G mara s General History of the Indies written by and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a general history of the European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, and the second a detailed description of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. Part one—in the multiple Spanish editions and translations into Italian and French published at the time—was the most comprehensive, popular, and accessible account of the natural history and geography of the Americas, the ethnology of the peoples of the New World, and the history of the Spanish conquest, including the most recent developments in Peru. Despite its original and continued importance, however, it had never been translated into English. Gómara’s history communicates Europeans’ general understanding of the New World throughout the middle and later sixteenth century. A lively, comparatively brief description of Europe’s expansion into the Americas with significant importance to today’s understanding of the early modern worldview, Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies will be of great interest to students of and specialists in Latin American history, Latin American literature, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as specialists in Spanish American intellectual history and colonial Latin America.

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by Mortimer Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 1527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book Newfoundland   Labrador

    Book Details:
  • 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 Maine to Greenland

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  • Author : Wilfred E. Richard
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2014-08-05
  • ISBN : 1588343774
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Maine to Greenland written by Wilfred E. Richard and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine to Greenland is a testament to one of the world's great geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. For more than three decades, William W. Fitzhugh and Wilfred E. Richard have explored the Northeast’s Atlantic corridor and its fascinating history, habitat, and culture. The authors’ powerful personal essays and Richard’s stunning photography transport readers to this vibrant region, joining Smithsonian archaeological expeditions and trekking in vast and amazing terrain. Following Fitzhugh and Richard’s travels north—from Maine to the Canadian Maritimes, Newfoundland and northern Quebec, then to Labrador, Baffin and Ellesmere islands, and Greenland—we view incredible landscapes, uncover human history, and meet luminous personalities along the way. Fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs, Maine to Greenland is the first in-depth treatment of the Northeast Atlantic corridor and essential for armchair travelers, locals, tourists, or anyone who has journeyed there. Today green technology, climate change, and the opening of the Arctic Ocean have transformed the Maritime Far Northeast from an icy frontier into a global resource zone and an increasingly integrated international crossroads. In our rapidly converging world, we have much to learn from the Maritime Far Northeast and how its variety of cultures have adapted to rather than changed their environments during the past ten thousand years. Maine to Greenland is not only a complete account of the region’s unique culture and environment, but also a timely reminder that amidst the very real consequences of climate change, the inhabitants of the Maritime Far Northeast can show us grounded and sustainable ways of living.

Book Across the Top of the World

Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by United States. Office of Naval Research and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694 1785   La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964    1785

Download or read book Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694 1785 La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 1785 written by Louis-Jacques Dorais and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph consists of word and affix-lists, as well as grammatical observations, concerning the language of the Southern Labrador Inuit from 1694 to 1785. They were collected from written texts of this period and show that the language of these eighteenth century Inuit is almost identical with that of their contemporaries in the Eastern Canadian Arctic./Ce travail présente sous forme de listes de mots et d’affixes ainsi que de remarques grammaticales les données linguistiques continues dans les textes d’époque portant sur les Inuits du Labrador méridional, de 1694 à 1785. Il nous permet de constater que la langue inuit du18e siècle était, à peu de choses près, semblable à celle qui est parlée aujourd’hui dans l’Arctique oriental canadien.

Book The History of Modern Whaling

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  • Author : Johan Nicolay Tønnessen
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1982-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520039735
  • Pages : 818 pages

Download or read book The History of Modern Whaling written by Johan Nicolay Tønnessen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encounters

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  • Author : John C. Kennedy
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0773583440
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Encounters written by John C. Kennedy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part anthropological history, part informed critique, Encounters examines the relations between the people of southeastern Labrador and the many visitors who have come to fish, heal the sick, and extract the region's resources. John Kennedy presents the latest archaeological, genealogical, and ethno-historical research that changes scholarly understandings of southeastern Labrador. Departing from the conventional view that coastal Labrador has distinct Inuit and non-Inuit regions, he argues that the coast should be viewed as a continuum of "Inuitness." Encounters unravels the social implications of the region's complex mercantile fishery, describes how twentieth-century military and resource development have impacted Labrador's seasonal economy, and suggests that Newfoundland continues to use Labrador as a colony. Kennedy uses field research he conducted in 2013 to describe the origins, current economies, and future challenges of the region's tiny villages. Although he is a strong supporter of Aboriginal land claims, Kennedy explores the impact of identity politics in the region, showing how land claims based solely on geography can unintentionally create inequities. Drawing on decades of field and archival research, Kennedy demonstrates how Aboriginal politics are transforming society in southeastern Labrador, empowering local people to overcome the stigmas of history and finally acknowledge their Inuit ancestry.