Twentieth-century Newfoundland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-century Newfoundland write by James Hiller. This book was released on 1994. Twentieth-century Newfoundland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations brings together ten papers by eight well-known historians of Newfoundland and Labrador. The papers address a wide variety of subject matter and open many avenues for further research. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on the Newfoundland and Labrador in the Twentieth century. This bibliography is organized by topic and will serve the needs of the general reader and specialists alike. Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations highlight the scope and complexity of present day writing about the history of Newfoundland and Labrador. James Hiller, Professor of History at Memorial University and author of a number of articles on Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Weste Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949(1998).
A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records
A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records write by Daniel Woodley Prowse. This book was released on 1895. A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tilting
Tilting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tilting write by Robert Mellin. This book was released on 2008-09-17. Tilting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is an almost elemental appeal in the rural fishing villages of Nova Scotia, Maine, and Newfoundland. Their intimate connection to nature, to the land, water, and (often harsh) weather; their reliance on ingenuity, on-hand materials, and craftsmanship; and their values of thrift and endurance serve as inspiration and as touchstones for those of us caught up in the hubbub of modern life. Tilting, Newfoundland is a celebration of all these virtues and an eclectic documentation of the buildings, landscape, and lifestyle of this remote community on a small island far off the Canadian coast. Through photographs, firsthand historical anecdotes, and delicate pencil drawings, author Robert Mellin presents a personal account of Tilting's houses, outbuildings, furniture, tools, fences, and docks, and, in the process, the way of life of Tilting. Mellin describes how houses are built for mobility and then "launched," or moved; how houses are detailed and constructed; how cabbage houses are built out of overturned boats; and the difference between picket, paling, and riddle fences-with diagrams in case you want to build your own. Part journal, part sketchbook, part oral history, Tilting, Newfoundland is a treasure chest of a book that offers new discoveries with each reading, and a reminder of the simpler aspects of life and building.
Newfoundland Modern
Newfoundland Modern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Newfoundland Modern write by Robert Mellin. This book was released on 2011-10-17. Newfoundland Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland & Labrador - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Newfoundland & Labrador write by Harry Beckett. This book was released on 2001. Newfoundland & Labrador available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports and cultures that make Newfoundland and Labrador unique.
