Download or read book Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador written by Dale Jarvis and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thousands of years that people have inhabited and visited Newfoundland and Labrador, Indigenous peoples, Basque whale hunters, French explorers, and Devon merchants have all left their mark on the map. But do you know which town father was a possible murder victim? Or which outport got its name from a stranger who showed up wearing three jackets? Or the community called after the patron saint of comedians? With folklorist and storyteller Dale Jarvis as your guide, explore the hidden stories, strange origins, and fascinating histories of the province's place names, from Dildo to Dover and Nain to Nipper's Harbour. On your journey you might learn how to cure gout in the stomach, raise a glass at The King of Clubs, and rub elbows with charcoal burners, heartbreakers, and the wife of Mad King George. You might even find the best spot to have a baby while paddling a canoe. Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador is an entertaining and at times cheeky look at the towns we love, and why we call them what we do.
Download or read book Place Names of Atlantic Canada written by William Baillie Hamilton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Atlantic Canada" covers the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Download or read book Newfoundland and Labrador Place Names written by David Scott and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncovering the Origin of 1 001 Unique Place Names In Newfoundland and Labrador written by Jennifer Leigh Hill and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning a trip to Newfoundland. If yes, this book is for you. It is a totally unique book about Newfoundland and Labrador, a totally unique province. Starting with Abraham's Cove and ending with Zoar, the author has "uncovered" the history behind the origin of 1,001 place names. Not only are communities both large and small included, "water features", such as lakes and rivers along with "terrain features", such as mountains and peninsulas are also covered. In addition, the names of the numerous National and Provincial Parks are also examined. For each place name, the author has attempted to put the name into a "context," be it, for example, historical (such as where the earlier settlers came from or who it was named after) or geographical (such as being named after a particular type of physical feature of the area). Specifically, the Five Ws of place names are examined - What is its name? Who named it? When was it named? Where is it located? Why was it given its name? and if it changed over time, Why was it changed and What is the new name? Tracing the history of settlement and the influence of ethnic groups on where they chose to live, in particular, the English, Irish, Scottish, French, and Portuguese are also examined and how each ethnic group left their "mark" on the naming of places in the Province, names such as Bristol's Hope (English), Ballyhack (Irish), St. Andrew's (Scottish), Baie Verte (French) and Cavo laboradore or Labrador Cape (Portuguese). Again, the focus is on the Five Ws of settlement and the following questions were asked: Who were the first to settle? What is the difference between a settlement and a colony? When (and why) did the French settlers basically get ousted from the island? Where did most of the Scots first settle and Why did they settle in specific areas on the west side of the island as opposed to others who typically settled on the East? In addition, the travels of some of the early explorers, including Columbus and Cabot are examined, along with the work by some of the early surveyors and cartologists, such as Cook and Cormack are examined, among others. In looking at the topology of the land, terms that might not be familiar to those who have never visited Newfoundland and Labrador are identified, and examples given. Water Features such as bights, bottoms, dribbles, gullies, holes, rattles, and tickles are defined, along with Terrain Features, such as brandies, blow me downs, drokes, hummocks, knobs, sinkers and tolts. Communities that are named after such features, for example Barachois Point, Bottomless Pond, Cow Head, Snug Cove and of course, the more recognizable, Joe Batt's Arm and Nicky's Nose are included. A lot of what has been written about NL's place name, has emphasized those place names that bring a "smile to one's face" (e.g., Bareneed, Come by Chance and Dildo), however, the focus of this book is more on trying to find out why such names were chosen, so the history behind the choice of names, such as Gallows Hill, Mistaken Cove and Unfortunate Cove, is explained. All place names have some sort of "history" attached to them; the intent of this book is to examine that history. Part history book, part travel book, it is the hope that the material contained will be of interest to not only Newfoundlanders but as well as to potential visitors to this wonderful province. It is the hope of the author that by reading this book, perhaps more people will consider traveling to this "unique" place, with so many "unique" places, and such a "unique" history. How many places can you visit out of the 1,001?
Download or read book Indigenous and Minority Placenames written by Ian D. Clark and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally. Many of the chapters in this volume originated as papers at a Trends in Toponymy conference hosted by the University of Ballarat in 2007 that featured Australian and international speakers. The chapters in this volume provide insight into the quality of toponymic research that is being undertaken in Australia and in countries such as Canada, Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Norway. The research presented here draws on the disciplines of linguistics, geography, history, and anthropology. The book includes meticulous studies of placenames in central NSW and the Upper Hunter region; Gundungurra cave names; western Arnhem Land; Northern Cape York Peninsula and Mount Wheeler in Queensland; saltwater placenames around Mer in the Torres Strait; and the Kaurna in South Australia.
Download or read book Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland written by William Kirwin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byrne, Chaffey, Fahey, Fizzard, Fudge, Grouchy, Hynes, Inkpen, Lyver, McLaughlin, Miles, Murphy, Puddester, Quirk -- the names themselves are evocative of Newfoundland. Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland traces the origins of almost 3,000 surnames found on the Island and provides an engaging and comprehensive collection of etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. The introduction presents a fascinating discussion of the history and linguistic origins of surnames found in Newfoundland, which come from many different cultures, notably English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Mi'kmaq. The main body of the book comprises a dictionary of surnames in the province based on data collected from provincial voting lists, family records, government documents, and newspaper reports dating back to the seventeenth century. Each entry includes variant spellings and cross-references of the surname, the countries in which the name originated, and its meaning. Newfoundland place names associated with the surname are also given. The book also includes a ranking of the most common surnames in Newfoundland and a comparative analysis of the frequency of surnames in Scotland, Ireland, England, and Newfoundland. Originally published in 1977, Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland is a unique reference work, giving Newfoundlanders, both in the province and away, a fascinating look at their roots. This edition incorporates a number of additions and corrections and has been completely reset in a sturdier and more convenient format. It will be of great use to individuals tracing their ancestors and to genealogists researching early settlers in Newfoundland.
Download or read book Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland written by E. R. Seary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origins of nearly 3,000 surnames found on the eastern Canadian island, along with sometimes extensive information on etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. Introduces the alphabetical catalogue with a survey of the history and linguistic origins, which include English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Micmac. Appends lists of names by frequency and frequency by origin, and surnames recorded before 1700. First published in 1977, reprinted four times, and here revised with additions and corrections and reset in a more convenient format. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names written by John Everett-Heath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 1619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every populated place, however small, has a name, and every name is chosen for a reason. This fascinating dictionary gives the history, meanings, and origin of an enormous range of country, region, island, city, and town names from across the world, as well as the name in the local language. It also includes key historical facts associated with many place names. Place-names are continually changing. New names are adopted for many different reasons such as invasion, revolution, and decolonization. This dictionary includes selected former names, and, where appropriate, some historical detail to explain the transition. The names of places often offer a real insight into the places themselves, revealing religious and cultural traditions, the migration of peoples, the ebb and flow of armies, the presence of explorers, local languages, industrial developments and topography. Superstition and legend can also play a part. All this fascinating detail is included in the Concise Dictionary of World Place Names. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary includes two appendices: a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names and their meanings, and a list of personalities and leaders from all over the world who have influenced the naming of places. Containing over 10,000 names, from Aachen to Zyrardów, this is a unique and fascinating guide for geographers, travellers, and all with an interest in current world affairs.
Download or read book Dictionary of Newfoundland English written by W.J. Kirwin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national, and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English." The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth-century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and to the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-century immigrants chiefly from southeastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers, and magazines, this book is the most sustained reading ever undertaken of the written words of this province. The dictionary gives not only the meaning of words, but also presents each word with its variant spellings. Moreover, each definition is succeeded by an all-important quotation of usage which illustrates the typical context in which word is used. This well-researched, impressive work of scholarship illustrates how words and phrases have evolved and are used in everyday speech and writing in a specific geographical area. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English is one of the most important, comprehensive, and thorough works dealing with Newfoundland. Its publication, a great addition to Newfoundlandia, Canadiana, and lexicography, provides more than a regional lexicon. In fact, this entertaining and delightful book presents a panoramic view of the social, cultural, and natural history, as well as the geography and economics, of the quintessential lifestyle of one of Canada's oldest European-settled areas. This second edition contains a supplement offering approximately 1500 new or expanded entries, an increase of more than 30 per cent over the first edition. Besides new words, the supplement includes modified and additional senses of old words and fresh derivations and usages.
Download or read book Cyndi s List written by Cyndi Howells and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two volume set which provides researchers with more than 70,000 links to every conceivable genealogical resource on the Internet.
Download or read book A List of the Place Names of the Island of Newfoundland with Their Geographical Positions written by Canada. Geographical Branch and published by Department of Natural Resources. This book was released on 1950 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland written by E. R. Seary and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Newfoundland Modern written by Robert Mellin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 220 drawings and photographs, Robert Mellin presents the development of architecture in the decades immediately following Newfoundland's 1949 union with Canada. Newfoundland's wholehearted embrace of modern architecture in this era affected planning as well as the design of cultural facilities, commercial and public buildings, housing, recreation, educational facilities, and places of worship, and Premier Joseph Smallwood often relied on modern architecture to demonstrate the progress made by his administration. Mellin explores the links between Smallwood and modern architecture, revealing how Smallwood guided the development of numerous architectural projects. He also looks at the work of two innovative local architects, Frederick A. Colbourne and Angus J. Campbell, showing how their architecture was influenced by their life-long interest in art. The first comprehensive work on an important period of architectural development in urban and rural Newfoundland, Newfoundland Modern complements Mellin's award-winning book on the outport of Tilting, Fogo Island.
Download or read book The Shipping News written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.
Download or read book A List of the Place Names of the Island of Newfoundland with Their Geographical Positions written by Canada. Geographical Branch and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book D liberations Et M moires de la Soci t Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
