Away from my island : the true story of Eliza Gill / Gary Collins.
Away from my island : the true story of Eliza Gill / Gary Collins.
By
:
Collins, Gary, 1949-
Publication Date
:
2023
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L. : Flanker Press Limited,
Physical Description
:
231 p.
Subject Term
:
Women.
Mothers.
Women -- Biography.
Mothers -- Biography.
Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Mothers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Summary
:
Born on Silver Fox Island in 1914, Eliza Gill was working “in service” before she was eight years old. By the age of eleven, she was informed by her father she would be sailing on a fishing schooner to the “wild Labrador,” where she would cook for a crew of five as well as care for her younger brother. For this, she received no pay, but she didn’t complain. Eliza liked the island way of life, but she wanted more for her family. When her husband, Jacob, lost his teaching position due to a Church law, she persuaded him to leave their island home before the Resettlement program began. Jacob worked first as a logger and then as a butcher on Joey Smallwood's pig farm in Gander, Newfoundland, while war raged across the world. The end of the war saw Smallwood's piggery shut down. At Eliza's insistence, the family moved to Toronto. There she met a Jewish neighbour, who was a Polish survivor of the Holocaust. She told Eliza about the horrors of a war she could not even fathom. It would haunt Eliza for all of her days. When Jacob developed a sudden debilitating illness, the family was forced to move back to Newfoundland, where Eliza’s island home was now vacated. There, she endured a burdensome, subsistence way of life to raise a family on her own. This is the true account of one woman's fortitude and bravery, neither of which shone more brightly than the day of her tragic—and heroic—death.
Language
:
English
ISBN
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9781774571514
General Note
:
"A biography"
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Baie Verte | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Bay Roberts | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Bell Island | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Bonavista | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Botwood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Buchans | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Burgeo | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Burin | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Carbonear | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Carmanville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Centreville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Change Islands | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Clarenville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Codroy Valley | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Conception Bay South | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Corner Brook | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Cow Head | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Deer Lake | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Fox Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Gambo | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Gander | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Gander | Adult NFic NL EXPRESS 7 day loan | Adult Non-Fiction NL EXPRESS 7 day loan | B G41C |
Gaultois | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Glenwood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Glovertown | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Grand Bank | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Greenspond | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Harbour Breton | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Hare Bay | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Holyrood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
L'Anse Au Loup | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Labrador City | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Lewisporte | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Lumsden | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Marystown | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Musgrave Harbour - John B. Wheeler Public Library | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
New-Wes-Valley | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Old Perlican | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Pasadena | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Placentia | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Point Leamington | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Port aux Basques | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Port Saunders | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Rocky Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Seal Cove | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Sop's Arm | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Springdale | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
St. Alban's | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
St. Anthony | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - Conservation Room | B G41C |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Summerford | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Trepassey | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Twillingate | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Wabush | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |
Whitbourne | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B G41C |