TITLE:
Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador / Anthony B. Dickinson and Chesley W. Sanger.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical Description:
254 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Summary:
Newfoundland and Labrador has a long history of commercial whaling, beginning in the first half of the sixteenth century, when Basque whalers established seasonal stations on the Labrador coast, from which to hunt bowheads and North Atlantic right whales. Anthony Dickinson and Chesley Sanger examine the region's modern shore-station industry, from its beginnings in 1896 to its peak catch season in 1904, through subsequent cycles of decline and revival, until its enforced closure in 1972 by the federal government.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780773528819
