Cod Collapse The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboys
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95It’s 1992 in Newfoundland and Labrador and the cod moratorium has put some thirty thousand fishers out of work. Journalist Jenn Thornhill Verma blends memoir and research in this gripping account of the enduring legacy of the largest mass layoff in Canadian history. Tracing the early history of the fishery to the present, Verma considers what lies ahead and what was lost along the way.
A Real Newfoundland Scoff Using Traditional Ingredients in Today’s Kitchens
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Inspired by her desire to stay connected to the food of her home province, culinary writer Liz Feltham goes back to her roots to bring fresh and modern twists to favourite Newfoundland meals. A Real Newfoundland Scoff provides recipes using traditional ingredients from the sea, land, air, bakeshop, and bar to create non-traditional dishes. Above all, Liz encourages readers to use this cookbook as a guide to exploring, discovering, and creating new versions of their old Newfoundland favourites.
Packed with fifty-six new recipes, thirty colour photographs, and a guide for buying Newfoundland ingredients in Atlantic Canada, this cookbook will appeal to all Newfoundland chefs, traditional and adventurous alike.
Inspired Rug-Hooking Turning Atlantic Canadian Life Into Art
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95Working from twenty years’ experience as a rug hooker, studio owner, and teacher, Deanne Fitzpatrick shares her sources of inspiration, work habits, ideas about creativity and design, and helpful guidelines for creating beautiful, expressive rugs. Practical suggestions for hooking houses, landscapes, seasons, stories, and people are accompanied by the artist’s insight into tapping creativity and learning how to make art from life.
Tips for choosing colours, experimenting with texture, preparing a backing, transferring a design, and achieving realistic depictions are interspersed with passages on artistic inspiration and process. Best of all, over 80 striking colour photographs of the author’s own projects and techniques provide readers with excellent reference points for turning their own experiences into magnificent rugs.
Lost Canoe
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$21.95A contemporary account of tracking a historical explorer across Labrador.
In the mode of Leonidas Hubbard and William Cabot, Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador. Disregarding local advice, his expedition headed up a box canyon and climbed five-hundred-metre cliffs all with a canoe in tow- a gruesome portage. The canoe was later abandoned.
The Lost Canoe is the account of the contemporary search for Prichard’s lost canoe. Over three summers Larry Coady coaxed friends and strangers into searching for Prichard’s
canoe, retracing Prichard’s route, verifying landforms and campsites, and mapping the entire trail. Only hard-nosed hikers immune to blackflies and mosquitoes were enticed to participate. Prichard’s original 1910 photographs and accounts of his journey, published in Through Trackless Labrador, are paired with Coady’s own photographs and writings. The narrative that results reveals a struggle against the elements to cross the ancient landscape of northern Labrador, a subarctic mix of boreal forest and open tundra. The book will appeal to a broad audience, from historians and geographers to adventurers and hikers.
The Best of Wilfred Grenfell
Editor: William PopePublisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95True life stories of the heroic efforts of people by a man as legendary as his subject. In the fifty years since his death, Wilfred Grenfell has become a folk hero-a missionary doctor who served the northern reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Woman of Labrador
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95Originally published in 1973, Woman of Labrador is Elizabeth Goudie’s enduring and candid story of her pioneering life as a trapper’s wife in the early 1900s. She was left alone much of the year to rear eight children while her husband worked the traplines, providing furs for their meagre income. Independent and resourceful, Elizabeth filled multiple roles as homemaker, doctor, cook, hunter, shoemaker, and seamstress for her growing family.
In the span of eighty years, she witnessed radical changes to Labrador, such as the construction of an airport at Goose Bay during the Second World War. Where once there had been pride and contentment in a harmonious relationship with the land, there came displacement and despair as the wilderness was overtaken by military and industrial projects. One of Elizabeth Goudie’s greatest triumphs was her steady pride in Labrador, her “country,” and her ideal of peace among neighbours. Her memoir is not about bitterness and defeat but courage and love, recounted with pride and humour.
In 1975, Elizabeth was awarded an honorary degree from Memorial University. She died in Happy Valley, Labrador, in 1982.
Newfoundland Pictorial Cookbook
Artist: Sherman HinesPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95Perfect food and perfect pictures all about Newfoundland.
Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: Downhomer$19.95This unique reference book combines definitions with illustrations, pronunciations and clever turns of phrases that reflect the colour and rhythm of the style of English commonly used in Newfoundland and Labrador. It includes 3,496 words, meanings, pronunciations and possible origins of words; 564 saying and expressions; folklore; weatherlore; a guide to celebrations and customs; and much more.
Pursuing Equality Women in Newfoundland and Labrador
Editor: Linda KealeyPublisher: Acadiensis Press$9.95The story of the women’s suffrage movement and other struggles for social reform in Canada’s oldest province. A pioneering work, originally published by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, now available again at a low price.
You Could Believe in Nothing
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Jamie Fitzpatrick’s debut novel tells of a muddled adulthood in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him for a job in Ottawa, his father, a DJ at the local classic rock station, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter’s attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek’s half-brother, Curtis, comes home, the visit stirs up nagging questions about their parents’ early days, and Derek examines again what it means to make commitments that may or may not bring real happiness.
Fitzpatrick captures the subtleties of casual conversation and the often understated wit that emerges between old friends. Having grown up after the decline of whatever might have been the real Newfoundland, Derek and his teammates are generally at a loss to defend the urban, mostly wayward lives the occupy. Set into a wet spring in St. John’s, its rinks, streets, and landmarks, and the sunken map of old haunts and years gone by, You Could Believe in Nothing is a study in familiarity and self-definition, underlining how little we sometimes know about ourselves and the people we know best.
Hero
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95In a St. John’s hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness forces her to retrace part of her life which is interwoven with those of her former employers, Simon and Sarah Jenson.
On the morning of July 1916, officer Lt. Simon Jenson, severely shell-shocked and demoralized after a year and a half in the trenches, fails in leadership, hanging behind his men as they march through into no-man’s-land. When a figure emerges from the drifting smoke, he thrusts the blade of his bayonet forward not into the enemy but into the body of Charles Baxter, a comrade and the brother of his fiancée, Sarah. Surviving against the odds, and with his battlefield actions misinterpreted, Simon is feted as a hero. But when Simon returns from the war, Sarah finds him emotionally fragile and prone to violent rages- not even their young daughter Lucy can cheer him. Worse, their lives are soon overtaken by the shadow of blackmail, and Sarah and Elsa, Lucy’s governess, are forced to reconsider everything they once believed about loyalty, valour, and responsibility.
St. John’s
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95In Ben Hansen’s St. John’s the professional, award-winning photographer turns his lens on the largest city in Newfoundland. From the colouful bows of local fishing boats to Battery Park and Memorial University, Ben Hansen’s photographs convey the blending of old and new. Through his lens, the viewer will observe a city of great beauty, important historical significance and bustling activity.
From the Coast to Far Inland
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95From the landing of the Vikings these stories trace the dramatic evolution of the relationship between aboriginals and non-aboriginals in Labrador; they trace the progress of Labrador from the British conquest to the flowering of the Labrador identity and the rise of the New Labrador Party in the late 20th century. In between are treks through various parts and times of Labrador
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Among the writings: Pierre Berton tracks through iron ore country; Peter Newman paints Lord Strathcona and the Hudson’s Bay Company warts and all; Elliott Merrick, Tony Paddon, the Labrador doctor, and Elizabeth Goudie describe the joys and hardships of life in the central Labrador plateau; Norman Duncan and Michael Crummey bring to life the humour and pathos of those who clung so tenaciously to a barren and bountiful coast; and Richard Gwyn, an adopted son of the province, sketches the rise of the New Labrador Party, a political force bursting with resentment against the neglect and indifference of a distant capital during the last days of Joey Smallwood.
Northern Nurse
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Set in the late 1920s, this is the true story of an Australian-born nurse who comes to Labrador to work.
Lure of the Labrador Wild
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95The improbable collaboration between an ambitious young writer, Leonidas Hubbard, and a forty-year-old New York attorney, Dillon Wallace. They set off in the spring of 1903 with George Elson, an Aboriginal guide with no first-hand knowledge of their destination—the incompletely mapped Lake Michikamau region of interior Labrador. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route, the Naskaupi River, and head up the dreadful Susan River instead. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.
Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95Santana, an evil sea imp, has sealed Capt. Woody McKenzie in the Woody Point lighthouse (Bonne Bay, NF). But Captain Woody isn’t just in the lighthouse, he’s part of it!
Glow-ria, the northern light becomes the Captain’s guardian angel. She tells the Captain the secret to breaking the spell but he cannot reveal it to anyone. Emily must discover the secret for herself, in her own heart.
The years pass and there seems to be no way to save the Captain. Then the Wood Point lighthouse is due to be torn down. Something has to be done now!
Emily & the Captain: A Winter Adventure
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95The story continues from the bestselling Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story. On a winter visit to Woody Point, Newfoundland, from her home in Virginia, Emily discovers a little lost fox, Rhett. Amazingly, Rhett is also from Virginia. But why has he fled Virginia and how has he gotten all the way to Newfoundland?
Emily and her animal friends find food and shelter for Rhett and they all enjoy the fun of the deep snows of a Newfoundland winter in the Mystical Forest.
But Rhett is homesick and longs to return to Virginia. Glow-ria, the northern light, finds a way to get Rhett home, if that’s what he really wants. It seems Emily and the animals must part with their new-found friend forever.
Gallery Cookbook
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$19.95A collection of recipes and photos of Newfoundland and Labrador that has been submitted by the readers of Downhome magazine.
Captain Bob Bartlett and the Karluk Adventure
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95It was 1913 and the ship Karluk left British Columbia on a scientific expedition to Canada’s Artic. At her wheel was Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, the “Master Mariner of the North” from Brigus, Newfoundland.
The Karluk became trapped in the early winter ice and was carried across the Artic Ocean, where it was crushed and sank. The crew and passengers set up camp on the ice and months later, when daylight returned to the Artic, they walked to an island. From there, the brave Captain Bartlett left the survivors while he and a young Inuk walked a treacherous 700 miles down the coast of Siberia to get help. This is one of the greatest stories of heroism and survival ever told.
Downhome Reflections
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$27.95Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So behold—Downhome’s first published collection of photographs submitted by our magazine readers. Every page of Downhome Reflections is a celebration of our place in the world.
Downhome Memories
Publisher: Downhomer$14.95It’s life as you remember it.
Downhome Memories brings together stories, poems and images guaranteed to strike a sentimental chord with every reader. Through the words of regular people—your siblings, your parents and your grandparents-histories are shared and the years that separate past and present slip away. The writing is honest and from the heart, born of a longing to recapture the simpler, finer things in life. There are elements in this collection to make you laugh, make you cry, make you proud and, most of all, make you remember.
Downhomer Almanac Cookbook 2
Publisher: Downhomer$19.95This book is a follow-up to the first Downhomer Household Almanac & Cookbook, which became a Canadian Best Seller in less than eight months.
Contents
- Recipes – Five hundred and eighty new recipes of all kinds from all over the world, contributed by readers of Downhomer magazine, and laid out in ten easy-to-find categories.
- Tonic For The Soul – All new stories, writings, poems, information, jokes and real life’s funny experiences. This section will make you laugh and make you cry.
Additions to Almanac & Cookbook 2
- Grassroots Healing – Eighteen pages on the use of natural products for a healthier body and mind.
- Astro Guide – A general horoscope by Madam Doziac.
- Kids’ Recipes – Twenty pages of simple recipes that younger children can do themselves, as well as some interesting and educational reading for the younger set.
- VIP Pages – A guestbook with a place to record birthdates and anniversaries of the Very Important People in your life, along with historical events and a though to live by for each day of the year.
Little Book of Outports
Publisher: Downhomer$12.95Ben Hansen has been photographing the province of Newfoundland and Labrador for over 40 years. This book represents his latest collection of work.
By The Sweat of My Brow The Life of a Newfoundland Logger
Publisher: John Kitchen$19.95This is the story of a young outport Newfoundlander who went into the lumberwoods at an early age to harvest trees to feed the paper mill at Grand Falls. It tells of his experiences at various phases of wood’s work: cutting trees, transporting them to the waterways, driving them to the mill, cooking meals, building dams, teaming horses, driving tractors, trucks, and other wood’s machinery.It tells of lumbermen’s living and working conditions-the hard-ships of working in all weathers, enduring heat, rain, snow, frost and flies. The camaraderie of camp life, the food served, the bunkhouse and beds they had to sleep on, the lice, the smells, and the changes brought about by the I.W.A strike.It chronicles the history of the log harvest of the Paper Company’s Millertown Division, from the start-up in the first decade of the 1900’s to the present.
Come Walk With Me
Publisher: John Kitchen$9.50This book is a descriptive and informative account the author’s backpacking experiences, complemented by nearly 300 coloured photographs.Walk with the author around Newfoundland visiting outport settlement; photographing caribou in wilderness areas; and hiking the 909 kilometers accross the province.Experience, also his adventures in England as ge wanders the designated trails and and pathways all the way from the Scottish border, sotuyh to the English Channel.His trips to aboriginal areas of Nprthern Ontario and Manitoba, too, will give you viewings of some amazing scenery.A quick flip through the book will show you what to expect and enjoy. Happy reading!
The Newfoundland Beothuk Termination of a Tribe
Publisher: John Kitchen$18.95This is an account of the final 100 years of Beothuks in Newfoundland during the years of increasing settlement of Notre Dame Bay, their last place of refuge from the Europeans’ advancement. It chronicles the conflict between the two races that led to the eventual end of the Beothuks–through the killing of their people, diseases, and denial of food.
All Afire! Ore Miners of Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: John Kitchen$19.95The book’s title – ‘All Afire!’ was the cry shouted when miners were ready to light their fuses for a blast, warning other workers to seek shelter. This is a story about the life of a miner, focusing on Buchans, with comparisons to other Newfoundland and Labrador mining communities. It explains how a miner goes about the various mining jobs, from mucking ore, to drilling, to being a shift-boss, and the many other jobs in between. It also discusses the hazards and dangers associated with mining – the falls of ground, the dust, the gas, moving machinery, dynamite, etc.
The Beothuk Way Living With Nature
Publisher: John Kitchen$18.85A story about the Beothuk way of life in Newfoundland before the coming of settlement by “White” people in early 1700s Notre Dame Bay. Told through the eyes of a young Beothuk boy, it tells of his people, hunting, ceremonies,trapping, cooking, shelters, weapons, tools, canoes and of their nomadic ways.
Downhomer Almanac Cookbook 1
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$19.95The Downhomer Household Almanac and Cookbook is the first of its kind. There have been almanacs before, and there have been cookbooks before, and this is not the first cookbook to have home remedies and cures, nor is it the first with household hints. There have been books containing humour, heart-touching stories, thoughts to live by, and even books in which to keep track of your family tree, but this is the first book that incorporates all of these. Not only that, this book also contains calendars covering the 1801 to 2050, cooking conversion tables, metric conversion tables, places to keep important dates, photographs, a place to write a biography of yourself, dedications, and much, much more. It is a wealth of information and a place to keep records to be handed down through the generations. This book is a must for people whose family and roots are near and dear to them, and contains a place to keep track of your future family tree (your children and grandchildren). On top of that, the beautiful writings, stories and poems in this book will make you laugh and make you cry. Downhomer Household Almanac and Cookbook is one of the most interesting books you will ever read.
Tonic for the Woman’s Soul
Publisher: Downhomer$19.95Tonic for the Woman’s Soul is the third in Downhome’s Household Almanac and Cookbook series, the previous two making the Canadian best-seller list.
What’s new in Tonic for the Woman’s Soul
- Understanding Me – Create your own autobiography by simply filling in the blanks—a record of a woman’s life for herself or for those with whom she wishes to share.
- Life, Love & Laughter – Short stories, jokes, biographies, poetry, facts and much more, all pertaining to women from Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the world. After all, the best recipe for happiness is to “live, love and laugh.”
- Recipes – More than 250 recipes contributed by Downhomer readers around the world. Included are Diet and Diabetic recipes with delicious choices for those of us who have to watch a little closer what we eat.
Noble Newfoundland Dog
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95This is a wonderful look at the history of this popular and well-recognized dog. Hynes begins his book with a history of the breed and moves on to stories about Newfoundland dogs past and present. These tales make up the bulk of the book, and are generally short, illustrating the traits we associate with the breed: Loyalty, bravery, intelligence and gentleness. The stories are grouped by type – rescues, proof of intelligence, acts of kindness, and so on. There are tales of dogs performing heroic sea rescues, catching fish with remarkable skill, acting as dependable hunting partners, and caring for children. One hilarious chapter is devoted to the Newfoundland’s subtle sense of humour. Hynes recounts anecdotes himself, but he also quotes historical text extensively, letting past Newfoundland owners talk about their dogs in their own words.
The last section of the book deals with the care and training of Newfoundland dogs. Hynes is thorough and honest in his advice – caring for a 150 pound dog requires diligence and devotion. This book is devoted to Newfoundland dogs: heroes, artful dodgers, escape artists, and best friends.
