Not Too Long Ago is back by popular demand in this newly revised and expanded edition! In this volume, today's senior citizens talk about some of the more exciting and memorable moments of their lives growing up in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read these richly detailed biographies, and meet: Charlie Bown - Bell Island Miner Arthur Clarke - Ambulance Driver Howard Elliott - Big Game Outfitter Margaret Giovannini - Outport Nurse Gordon Lannon - Train Conductor Howard Lethbridge - Trapper Jack May - Lighthouse Keeper Frank Mercer - Newfoundland Ranger Florence Michelin - Grenfell Nurse George Snow - Lumberman Hubert Waterman - Twillingate Fisherman Millie Young - Port au Port Midwife . . . and many more who share experiences from various walks of life: true stories of shipwrecks and sailors, moonshine and home remedies, the seal fishery, the 1959 Badger riot, and young men and women who survived the 1929 Burin tidal wave, who cooked on the Labrador, and who marched off to war.

A book for those who come from away and for us livyers. This work brings together words from indigenous cultures and words spoken and recorded in English from the time of the European discovery of the New Founde Lande in 1497. The dominant European language became English, imported from the West Country of England and enriched by settlers from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and France. Because settlements were separated from the Mother Country and from each other, in its written and spoken forms the language became a time capsule of unique expressions drawn from everyday life. The Newfoundland vocabulary was greatly influenced by the early commercial activities of the European settlers engaged in the cod fishery, sealing, and fur trapping. In addition, commercial and social interaction with indigenous cultures exposed the newcomers to a treasury of words from the ancient North American languages. The living cultures of the Inuit, Innu, Mi'kmaq, and the French Mi'kmaq rightfully deserve dictionaries of their own, well-researched by experts in their respective fields. We are fortunate that numerous words from these cultures and from the Beothuk became incorporated into the lexicon of English-speaking writers, and many are included here.

Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador's industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasting freight to remote seaside towns. Her story also illustrates the worst examples of the province's favourite bloodsport: partisan politics. In 1973, she was purchased by the provincial government and refitted as a floating maritime museum; her political legacy soon included innumerable blunders and cover-ups, mutiny, a stowaway, and perhaps the ghost of a sealing captain. In 1975, Canada's External Affairs appointed Norma & Gladys as a roving ambassador to promote fisheries management within a 200-mile coastal limit. But she was unseaworthy; Clarenville Shipyard had installed the wrong masts, and her itinerary to sail around the world was scrapped. After a frontal assault by the media and political partisans, she nevertheless promoted the province to 78,900 visitors in nineteen European ports. She returned with her reputation restored, her signal flags flapping like a hundred gypsy scarves on the breeze. "On Friday, January 16, 1976, at nine o'clock in the evening, Liliana Wagner stowed away under the canvas of one of the port dories." "Eight pumps could not keep her afloat. Norma & Gladys had sprung a perfect leak." Of her coasting years: "You'd know when Norma & Gladys was in port. Every man would be dodging up the road with a bologna on his back." Alan Hillier On the world tour: "I was in Captain Jack's bad books. . . . I had to put in the pigs. It was the worst day of my life." Charlie Parsons "In the face of critics and storms, Norma & Gladys does represent something romantic, something glamorous, and it's been a job well done." Premier Frank Moores, August, 1976

Along the eastern shores of North America, savage storms have thrust sturdy ships and small boats upon the cliffs and shores of the continent. From these events have come true stories of bravery by skippers and their sea dogs-the crews. Here are sixteen tales of salty heroism and tragedy by fourteen writers whose lives have been shaped by their experiences and knowledge of the North Atlantic Ocean.

This is a collection of true Newfoundland and Labrador stories about crime and punishment on land and sea. Included here are tales of murder, mutiny, and smuggling on the high seas, as well as riots, assaults, and frauds perpetrated in some of the strangest criminal cases this province has ever seen.