- Beothuk
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Beothuk were an indigenous people based on the island of Newfoundland.
- Beothuk remains returned to Newfoundland after 191 years in Scotland
Mi'kmaq chief says remains are 'almost home' at St. John's museum, far away from gravesite
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
The remains of a Beothuk couple who were taken from a grave in central Newfoundland and sent to Scotland almost two centuries ago have been returned to their home province.
- Canada Rediscovered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the aboriginal inhabitants.
- A Class Act
An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Gillespie records the men and women who struggled within an economic system they did not control to improve the lives of their families and their class.
- Demasduit
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.
- Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
- Fishermen's Protective Union
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Fishermen's Protective Union (sometimes called the Fisherman's Protective Union, the FPU, The Union or the Union Party) was a workers' organisation and political party in the Dominion of Newfoundland.
- Fishermen's Protective Union
Resource Type: Website
- Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Website
The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website is an ambitious, non-commercial, public history project that aims to provide school students and the general public with a wide range of authoritative information on the province's history, culture, and geography. It is based at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faculty, graduate students, and professional writers contribute articles, while undergraduate students provide support as research assistants.
- Historic Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fisheries in the 1700s the Beothuk found their territory increasingly reduced and conflict between the two groups escalated. The Beothuk declined steadily in numbers and by the early 1800s they had ceased to exist as a viable cultural group.
- History of the Codroy Valley
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
- A History of the Newfoundland Status of Women Council
1972-75.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
This history is a resume of the activities of one group of women who have been involved in the women's movement in St. John's since the spring of 1972.
- I Chose Canada
The Memoirs of the Honourable Joseph R. Joey Smallwood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Joey: inimitabilia from the gee-whiz (ex) premier
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
- Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Labrador Days
Tales of the Sea Toilers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1919
- Left to Die: The Story of the SS Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
It was a cold April night in 1914 when Mary Crewe awoke from her sleep to see a ghostly image of her husband and son kneeling by her bed in an embrace. She knew immediately that the worst had happened -- her men had perished at sea on the annual seal hunt.
- Martin's Point, S.E. Ethid
Resource Type: Article
On December 11, 1919, in a violent storm, the Captain intentionally ran the Ethie aground at Martin's Point. The passengers and crew were rescued, with the help of locals that witnessed the grounding, by means of a boson's chair and a rope. A baby was sent ashore in a mail bag. The wreck of the S.S. Ethie can be found at Martin's Point. There's a parking area with stairs built down to the rocky beach. Martin's Point is in Gros Morne National Park on The Viking Trail between Sally's Cove and Western Brook Pond.
- Masterless Men of Newfoundland
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
- More Incredible than Fiction
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The story of the St. Lawrence community recounts the working past of a small Newfoundland coastal town.
- Mount Cashel Orphanage
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Mount Cashel Orphanage was a Canadian orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- Multiple distinct groups historically populated Newfoundland, DNA study suggests
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Study suggests implies that the island of Newfoundland was populated multiple times by distinct groups.
- Mumming in Outport Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A study of folk culture in Newfoundland's outport villages and its decline in the face of modern industrialism.
- The New Founde Land
A Personal Voyage of Discovery
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Newfoundland Emporium contains over 15,000 items as curious as its 'marvellous terrible' owner Dave LeDrew
Resource Type: Article
Known for its unique assortment of antiques, crafts and giftware as much as it is for the man who runs it, the Newfoundland Emporium has been a fixture on Broadway in Corner Brook for 33 years.
- The Newfoundland Government's rejection of the MicMac land claim
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
- Newfoundland Newspaper Archives (1816-2016)
Resource Type: Website
Pay site.
- Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
SS Newfoundland was a sealing ship which lost 78 sealers on the ice during extreme weather conditions in March 1914 which claimed lives from three sealing ships in an event known as the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster.
- Newfoundland: "The Fortress Isle"
Premier Smallwood's Statement of Policy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
- Newfoundland War Brides
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
Lin Crosbie-Marshall discusses courtship and cultural connections with four Corner Brook women who left Scotland over 60 years ago, and followed their soldier husbands to western Newfoundland.
- Newfoundland's Grand Banks
Resource Type: Website
Genealogical and historical data for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Port aux Choix National Historic Site
Resource Type: Article
- Princess Sheila
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1958
- Report of Mr. W. E. Cormack's journey in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1828
- Shanawdithit
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Shanawdithit (ca. 1801 – June 6, 1829), was the last known living member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland.
- Shanawdithit's People
The Archaeology of the Beothuks
Resource Type: Book
- The SS Ethie
Resource Type: Article
On the wreck of the SS Ethie on the west coast of Newfoundland.
- The SS Ethie and the Hero Dogs
Resource Type: Article
- The Story of Newfoundland
A new and fully revised history of Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1959
- Sudden closure of loggers' museum leaves workers high and dry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Employees at the Loggers' Life Museum in Grand Falls-Windsor were shocked to learn the site is permanently closing, just days before it was set to open for the summer season.
- This Rock Within the Sea: A Heritage Lost
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Wake of the Great Sealers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The story of the Newfoundland men of the neneteenth and early twentieth centuries who set out in flimsy ships to hunt seals on the treacherous North Atlantic ice fields.
- Westward to Vinland
The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House Sites in North America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Work and Life in the Bell Island Mines
Resource Type: Article
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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