Joseph Roberts Smallwood Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900-1949 (Hardback) by MelvinBaker, PeterNeary Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2021 by Mcgill-Queen's University Press, Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-228-00631-2, ISBN: 0-228-00631-7
"In 1937 he edited The Book of Newfoundland and thereafter enjoyed great success on the radio as "The Barrelman."
On to Civvy Street Canada's Rehabilitation Program for Veterans of the Second World War by PeterNeary 368 Pages, Published 2011 by Mcgill-Queen's Press - Mqup ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-8659-8, ISBN: 0-7735-8659-8
"Canada's Rehabilitation Program for Veterans of the Second World War Peter
Neary ... Ontario Archives (London Free Press collection) and from Denny
Russell of the Calgary Highlanders Museum and Archives. The list of scholars
who helped and encouraged me is long. I thank them one and all and extend
particular thanks to Melvin Baker, Sam Clark, Michael DeKay, Keith Fleming,J.L.
Granatstein, Robert Hawkins, A.M.J. Hyatt, Laurence Muss ..."
"He is the co-editor (with_].L. Granatstein) of The Good Fight: ... and is studying postwar defence policy. DOUG OWRAM is Vice-President Academic of the University of Alberta and one of the major Canadian historians of his generation."
"Peter Neary. it had distributed 2,000 barrels of Newfoundland-grown potatoes to residents unable to provide this staple for themselves.50 What was the effect of these changes? ... 51 Such sanc— timony notwithstanding, the outlook for Newfoundland's poor remained bleak. ... It should, but could not be, increased, because “however low the scale may appear in English eyes, it is too near the average ..."
Part of the Main(1st Edition) A Illustrated History of Newfoundland and Labrador by PeterNeary, Patrick O'flaherty Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1986 by Independent Publishers Group ISBN-13: 978-0-920911-26-6, ISBN: 0-920911-26-9
"(from the rear cover) Newfoundland is Canada's youngest province confederating with Canada in 1949. Prior to Confederation with Canada, Newfoundland held Dominion status, participating, for example, in drawing up treaties with the United States. The Maritime Archaic Indians appear to have been the earliest settlers while in more recent history the Beothuks, Vikings, French, English and other Europeans came to settle. Newfoundland's ..."
"Essays in Interpretation James Hiller, Peter Neary. parts of the country. On the
whole whatever commitment there has been has arisen out of the concern of
individuals rather than the decided ... the other hand little of the graduate
research done in the field either at these or other Canadian universities has
found its way into print. Two notable exceptions are F.W. Rowe, The History of
Education in Newfoundland (Toronto 1952) and ..."
By great waters [a Newfoundland and Labrador anthology] (The Social history of Canada) by PeterNeary, Patrick O'flaherty Published 1974 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-2125-0, ISBN: 0-8020-2125-5
"Frank Lind was thirty-five years of age in 1914 when The Great War broke out. Even if conscription had been in place, he would have been qualified for an age exemption. However, like many Newfoundlanders of his generation, he quickly volunteered and joined the First Newfoundland Regiment (later to become the Royal Newfoundland Regiment)."
"Desmond Morton sets the scene with a survey of the experiences of veterans of the Great War, who found much to fault in Ottawa's policies; Jeff Keshen looks at the very different experience of Canada's veterans of World War II. Dean Oliver examines the organization and administration of the return of Canadian soldiers from Europe after VE-Day, and Don Ives examines the philosophy and program of the Veterans Charter. Focusing on specific ..."
"In February 1934, a financial emergency created by the Great Depression forced the suspension of self-government in Newfoundland. Britain guaranteed Newfoundland's debt and appointed a Commission of Government. Among the first members named to the new government was Sir John Hope Simpson, whose portfolio included responsibility for fishing, forestry, mining, and agriculture. This book is a selection from the many letters written from Ne ..."
"Sir John Hope Simpson, Named To The Commission of Government In New-foundland in 1934, was a man of wide international experience and exceptional administrative ability. This book is a selection from the many letters written by Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson to family members in England. Their correspondence recalls in vivid detail the terrible decade of the 1930s in Newfoundland and Labrador."
"Playland is a tough, mordantly funny, splendidly layered novel about Hollywood in the 1940s and America in the 1990s, about fame and its excesses, honor and personal betrayal, and a fifty-year search for what may or may not be the truth. At its center is Blue Tyler, a spoiled, untamed child star who disappeared from Hollywood in disgrace when she was twenty and reappeared forty-five years and eleven marriages later as a mysterious bag l ..."
"The first comprehensive history of Newfoundland was published in 1793, but a centenary and a half passed before the first university course in the history of the island was offered there. During the past fifteen years there has been growing activity in the subject. This volume is the work of six scholars who have either studied or taught at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Some have done both. The book has two broad aims. First, ..."
Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff An Artist's Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia by PeterNeary Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Ubc Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7748-3498-8, ISBN: 0-7748-3498-6
"Alan Caswell Collier was one of Canada's most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government-run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiancée and depicted fellow "relief stiffs" and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrari ..."
"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 ..."