In the summer of 1892, an American company charted a schooner to coastal Labrador to recruit Inui...

Drawing on one of Newfoundland and Labrador's richest archival treasures, the letters written to ...

Fairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form ...

Throughout Northern Ireland, the term 'civil society' refers to community and voluntary sector or...

This book offers scholarly state-of-the-art presentations concerning material culture research at...

Resettlement is a global phenomenon once again at the forefront of political debate in Newfoundla...

Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales...

A poignant and comprehensive study of the Newfoundland Forestry Companies of the First World War,...

John Nick Jeddore's richly detailed memoir begins when he was a boy in the 1920s and 1930s. His h...

A broad range of perspectives and voices united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit l...

While well-known songs such as 'The Badger Drive' and 'Tickle Cove Pond' provide glimpses into th...

Looking Out for the Lads

In 1991 the Atlantic groundfish fishery in Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick experienced dim...

Edward Feild, Newfoundland's second Anglican bishop, was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterb...

In a riveting narrative, psychological anthropologist Jean L. Briggs takes us through six months ...

From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Ne...

'We've come a long journey.' -- Sarah Anala (Nunatsiavut Elder), 2017

In 1988, Merrell Dow, an American transnational company, proposed to build a chemical factory in ...

This book is about the problems faced by able-bodied men who are forced to live off public welfar...

Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Au...

Bringing Home Animals is an ethnography detailing what the author learned as a result of travelli...

Making a World of Difference

Before 1950, the greatest number of Newfoundland farmers lived in the St. John's area. They and t...

This collection includes a variety of forms - art, photography, personal narrative, translation a...

The global fisheries crisis has prompted widespread debate about the origins of overfishing in ma...

In 1965, the classically trained musician and composer Kenneth Peacock published a three-volume w...

First elected to Newfoundland's House of Assembly in 1882, Robert Bond served as a member of gove...

How does one transform small size and relative isolation into a powerful combination for sustaina...

This is the first book-length inquiry into Newfoundland immigration prior to Confederation in 194...

I Never Knowed It Was Hard, the memoirs of Naskaupi River trapper and fiddler Louie Montague, a 7...

At the end of World War I, after four years of unimaginable man-made destruction, a swiftly killi...

Since the invention of moving pictures, countless Inuit have worked in front of and behind the ca...

Kay Burns and David Eso's edition of Leo Ferrari's The Earth Is Flat! introduces us to a long-for...

For more than a decade now, the $13 billion Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been generati...

Fishing Measures investigates the introduction of fisheries science to Newfoundland's saltfishery...

Employment-related geographical mobility is widespread and increasing within Canada and around th...

The very human story behind the post-war growth of St. John's and the creation of Churchill Park

Listen While I Tell You

Phebe Florence Miller was a poet and postmistress who lived in Topsail, Newfoundland and Labrador...

At the age of eighty-three, Paulus Maggo, a highly respected Inuit elder residing in Nain on the ...

Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discu...

Language and Poverty

This critical and irreverent history of the Mummers Troupe demands the attention of theatre enthu...

This book explores the refugee experience of people from El Salvador, Iran, Vietnam, Cuba, Czecho...

Using 1954-1959 National Toponymic Series maps as a base point, the study records the development...

This collection of essays breaks the silence of the political and legal history of women in Newfo...

This fleet of dorymen fishing the Grand Banks is now but a memory--and St. John's no longer its p...

Quest for Equity is a first in the social science literature in its attention to the place Norweg...