Out from the harbour : outport life before resettlement / Rex Brown, edited by Stan Dragland.
Out from the harbour : outport life before resettlement / Rex Brown, edited by Stan Dragland.
By
:
Brown, Rex B.
Publication Date
:
2014
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L .: Flanker Press Ltd.,
Physical Description
:
181 p. : ill.
Subject Term
:
Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Geographic Term
:
Placentia Bay (N.L.) -- Social life and customs.
Placentia Bay (N.L.) -- Biography.
Additional Contributors
:
Dragland, Stan, 1942-2022.
Summary
:
Out from the Harbour is a long-awaited treat for readers young and old. It is Rex Brown's whimsical, sentimental, and at times outright funny memoir about growing up in Tack's Beach, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. This memoir captures with fine detail and wry wit a lifestyle of days gone by in a small outport community. Fishing, boat building, farming, shopkeeping, and a myriad of other professions in the culture of self-sufficiency, as well as the simpler delights youngsters found for entertainment in those days, are the stuff of Rex Brown's hometown recollections.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781771173209
General Note
:
Includes index.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Arnold's Cove | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Bell Island | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Bonavista | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Burgeo | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Burin | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Carbonear | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Centreville | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Conception Bay South | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Corner Brook | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Deer Lake | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Fogo Island | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Gambo | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Gander | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Glenwood | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Grand Bank | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Labrador City | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Lewisporte | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Marystown | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
New-Wes-Valley | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Norris Arm | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Old Perlican | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Pasadena | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Placentia | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Point Leamington | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Port aux Basques | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Pouch Cove | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Springdale | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
St. Anthony | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
St. Brides's | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room | 971.804 B81 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | 971.804 B81 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 971.804 B81 |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Stephenville Crossing | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |
Trinity Bay North | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.804 B81 |