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Joseph Noad Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland Delivered Before The Mechanics' Institute,

At St. John's, Newfoundland, On Monday, 17th January, 1859

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Joseph Noad (ca 1797 – February 20, 1873) was a public official in Newfoundland. He was a member [more]

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Joseph Noad Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland

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Joseph Noad (ca 1797 – February 20, 1873) was a public official in Newfoundland. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland from 1842 to 1845 and from 1848 to 1855.[1] Born in England, Noad came to Newfoundland and, soon afterwards in August 1832, was named surveyor general for the colony. He was a member of the Executive Council from 1842 to 1855. He was also a director of the Newfoundland Steam Navigation Company. Noad was married twice: he married his second wife Emma Gaden Lilly; in 1935. After he was forced into retirement from his appointed positions in 1855 by the introduction of responsible government, he moved to Woodstock, Canada West, where he died in 1873.[1] In 1859, he published Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland. [more]

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Frederick Edwin Smith The Story Of Newfoundland (Fiscle Part-9)

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The Island Of Newfoundland, Which Is The Tenth Largest In The World, Is About 1640 Miles Distant From Ireland, And Of All The American Coast Is The Nearest Point To The Old World. Its Relative Position In The Northern Hemisphere May Well Be Indicated By Saying That The Most Northern Point At Belle Isle Strait Is In The Same Latitude As That Of Edinburgh, Whilst St. John's, Near The Southern Extremity, Lies In The Same Latitude As That Of Paris. Strategically It Forms The Key To British North America. St. John's Lies About Half-Way Between Liverpool And New York, So That It Offers A Haven Of Refuge For Needy Craft Plying Between England And The American Metropolis. The Adjacent Part Of The Coast Is Also The Landing-Place For Most Of The Transatlantic Cables: It Was At St. John's, Too, That The First Wireless Ocean Signals Were Received. From The Sentimental Point Of View Newfoundland Is The Oldest Of The English Colonies, For Our Brave Fishermen Were Familiar With Its Banks At A Time When Virginia And New England Were Given Over To Solitude And The Redskin. Commercially It Is The Centre Of The Most Bountiful Fishing Industry In The World, And The Great Potential Wealth Of Its Mines Is Now Beyond Question. On All These Grounds The Story Of The Colony Is One With Which Every Citizen Of Greater Britain Should Be Familiar. The Historians Of The Island Have Been Capable And In The Main Judicious, And To The Works Of Reeves, Bonnycastle, Pedley, Hatton, Harvey, And Above All Chief Justice Prowse, And More Recently To J.D. Rogers,[1] Every Writer On Newfoundland Must Owe Much. Of Such Elaborate Work A Writer In The Present Series May Say With Virgil's Shepherd, "Non Invideo, Miror Magis"; For Such A One Is Committed Only To A Sketch, Made Lighter By Their Labours, Of The Chief Stages In The Story Of Newfoundland. [more]

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Frederick Edwin The Story Of Newfoundland

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Church was the son of Eliza (née Janes) and Joseph Church. The family's wealth came from Church's father, a silversmith and watchmaker in Hartford, Connecticut. (Joseph subsequently also became an official and a director of The Aetna Life Insurance Company.) Joseph, in turn, was the son of Samuel Church, who founded the first paper mill in Lee, Massachusetts in the Berkshires. The family's wealth allowed Frederic Church to pursue his interest in art from a very early age. At eighteen years of age, Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole[1] in Catskill, New York after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, introduced the two. In May 1849, Church was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to Academician the following year. Soon after, he sold his first major work to Hartford's Wadsworth Athenaeum. [more]

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Frederick Edwin Smith The Story of Newfoundland

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The Rt Hon. Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC, KC (12 July 1872 – 30 [more]

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John Rogers Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland

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From the day I read in the _Field_ Sir Richard Musgrave's article, "A seventy-pound salmon with rod and line," [more]

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William MacGregor Colonial Reports Miscellaneous No 54 Newfoundland

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William MacGregor was born in Hillockhead, parish of Towie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland the eldest son of John MacGregor a [more]

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William Gough Gramp's War:

Letters From The Front

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When my Grandfather Gough enlisted to fight and left his home outport of Elliston, Newfoundland in WW 1, he was a innocent boy. By the end of WW 1 he was a shattered man, who had lost the main illusions of his life. Yet, he managed to write brave letters from the front; letters that reflected his life and times in such a way that I want what he said to be available for free, for us all - so we may all avoid war in all times forever. My grandfather never glorified war to me, he warned me against it, told me to avoid fighting for belief; he regretted the killing he did, mourned those he'd shot & bayoneted, and was straight-ahead honest about his life-long opinion that to kill is wrong - period. I write of his war in other books, in this one it's time to share with the world what he wrote in his period of learning. I ask to remember, as you read them, the time in which he lived, & to consider the falsehoods that were told him in order to have him fight. Those were terrible times of a war that could have been avoided. [more]

Keywords: Newman Gough, William Gough, World War One, Newfoundland, 1918, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, WW1, Soldier, Letters Home, Front Line, Historical documents

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William Gough Vegetable Talk

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Vegetable Talk This is the first in a series of linked Urban Fables. Each story stands on its own and is being released as a single e-book. But they all connect in a much larger meta-narrative. Much like our lives.   When we meet the boy, he's imprisoned by curtains, surrounded by vegetables, lost on his bicycle, caught by plums. Oh yes, the first of many stories about the singular childhood of the little boy in a big room. Not quite a Gargoyle, not yet a Poet, he waits each night for his vegetable gruel. Sometimes a room is just too big. All my Urban Fables connect with the "Newfie Bullet" trilogy. http://wwwgullpondbooks.com/the-newfie-bullet-trilogy.php [more]

Keywords: Bill Gough, Newfie Bullet, quantum trilogy, newfoundland

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William Gough Inside The Painted Poem Cave

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Inside The Painted Poem Cave This is the Second in a series of linked Urban Fables. In this second fable, having lost his green bicycle, and arranged plum blossoms in a vase, he becomes old and meets a woman in the adjoining room. This becomes a story of a little old man in a big room. Toonie Yarns.. where we find William Gough's Short Stories & Serials. We sell each e-book for two dollars.....or less. [more]

Keywords: william gough, urban fables, newfoundland, short stories, vancouver

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