Down to Bowring's : a memoir / Derrick Bowring ; edited by Amy Bowring.
Down to Bowring's : a memoir / Derrick Bowring ; edited by Amy Bowring.
By
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Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Publication Date
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2015
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Creative Publishers,
Physical Description
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141 p. ill.
Subject Term
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Businesspeople -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- Biography.
Department stores -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
Additional Contributors
:
Bowring, Amy, 1971-
Summary
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A history of one of the most recognized and successful department stores in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland. Arriving in St. John's in the middle of the Great Depression, Derrick Bowring discovered an island whose vistas and people would capture his heart. Sent to Newfoundland to join Bowring Brothers Ltd. and learn the retail end of the family business, his work with the company would take him into logging communities, outports and up to the ice fields. His memoir offers a mercantile history of St. John's in the mid-twentieth century providing stories of life on Water Street during economic depression, a world war, Confederation and the business management shifts of the 1960s. His memoir is punctuated with colourful stories of the people he encountered such as Sealing Captain Al Blackwood, Premier Joey Smallwood and King George VI.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781771030618
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