Conception Bay North

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Books about Conception Bay North

Heritage of a Newfoundland Outport
by Gerald Andrews
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By Great Waters
Edited by Peter Neary and Patrick O-Flaherty.
A collection of writings from various people giving us an insight on
life and events in NL beginning with Johan Day's Letter (1497).
ISBN (casebound) 0-8020-2125-5
ISBN (paperback) 0-8020-6233-4
Published by the University of Toronto Press 1974.

The Peopling of Newfoundland - Essays in Historical Geography
Edited by John J. Mannion
Nine essays including English Migration to Newfoundland by W. Gordon
Handcock; Population Dynamics in NL: The Regional Patterns by Michael
Steveley; The Development of Folk Architecture in Trinity Bay by David
S. Mills.
ISBN 0-919666-17-5

Irish Settlements in Eastern Canada: a study of cultural transfer and adaptation
by John Mannion.
ISBN 0-8020-5303-3

The Halfyard Family Register
by Robert R. Halfyard, B.A.
The Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Halfyard (1744-1815) and
Elizabeth Churchill (1752-1828) of Ochre Pit Cove.
ISBN 1-921971-04-4
Halfyard Heritage,
11 Timber Lane,
St. Catharines, ON L2N 7R7 Canada

Fifty-two Years at the Labrador Fishery
by Nicholas Smith
Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd.,
29 Ludgate Hill, E.C.4., 1936
[No ISBN]

The Settling of Spaniard's Bay
by Eric Martin Gosse
ISBN 0-921191-25-1
Harry Cuff Publications Ltd.,
94 LeMarchant Road
St. John's, NL A1B 2H2

A History of Corpus Christi Parish Northern Bay
by Edward V. Chafe
ISBN 0-920884-41-5
Robinson-Blackmore Books
PO Box 8660
St. John's, NL A1B 3T7

History & Folklore of Western Bay
by Maxwell Kennedy
A Collage of Vignettes of Newfoundland Outport Life
With a Forward by Patrick O'Flaherty, Ph.D
[No ISBN]

Exploring the Avalon
by Les Harding
ISBN 0-921692-87-0
Jesperson Publishing
39 James Lane
St. John's, NL A1E 3H3

The Second Time Around
by Jack Hambling
Growing Up in Bay Roberts
ISBN 0-921191-76-6
Harry Cuff Publications Ltd.,
94 LeMarchant Road
St. John's, NL A1B 2H2

Sailing Vessels and Crews of Carbonear
by Frank Saunders
Printed by Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing Ltd.,
PO Box 8660
St. John's, NL A1B 3T7
[No ISBN]

The Mate Just Took a Bearing
by Frank Saunders
Stories of Great Carbonear Ships and the Men Who Sailed Them.
Town Crier Publishing Company Ltd.,
St. John's, NL
[No ISBN]

So longe as there comes noe women
by W. Gordon Handcock
Origins of English Settlement in Newfoundland
ISBN 0-920911-55-2 (paper); 0-920911-80-3 (bound)
Breakwater Books,
277 Duckworth Street, PO Box 2188
St. John's, NL A1C 6E6

Blackfoots - Our History
by Bert Parsons
History of the United Church, Carbonear, Newfoundland
[No ISBN]

Hope and Deception in Conception Bay
by Sean T. Cadigan
Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland, 1785-1855
ISBN 0-8020-0469-5 (cloth); 0-8020-7568-1 (paper)
University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 1995
Toronto, Buffalo, London
Judy Balen has offered to do lookups from the book.

Historical Newspapers for Conception Bay North