Not Too Long Ago

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Ebook in PDF format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781926881997

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.