DOMESTIC SERVANTS IN GRAND FALLS: Migration and Recruitment Prior to the Second World War By Ingrid Botting
Our thinking about the history of domestic service in Newfoundland tends to
focus on those contexts where young women were "shipped" to provide
housekeeping, childcare, and other services to rural fishing families, often from
within or very close by the communities in which they served...[ Read
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OUR OWN MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX:
The Newfoundland Shell Company, 1915-1918 By
Mike O'Brien
Most Newfoundlanders are to some extent familiar with the difficulties that have been encountered by attempts at economic diversification through the encouragement of new industries. The economic history of Newfoundland over the past five decades reads as a litany of government-sponsored industrial enterprises that ended in failure. Less known is the fact that this pattern extended back long before the 1950s and the ambitious schemes of the Smallwood government.
CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF NEWFOUNDLAND SEALERS AND SEALING By
Shannon Ryan Although all peoples living along the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador - Aboriginal and European - hunted and netted seals whenever the occasion arose, the vessel hunt which became so successful began in the 1790s to meet the growing demand for seal oil in Britain.
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