Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining
Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history …

Background Research on the 1918 influenza pandemic often focuses exclusively on
pandemic years, reducing the potential long‐term insights about the pandemic. It is critical to …

Objectives The selective mortality hypothesis of tuberculosis after the 1918 influenza
pandemic, laid out by Noymer and colleagues, suggests that acute exposure or pre‐existing …

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B. Alexander
docked in St John's harbor, carrying a thousand American soldiers sent to join the …

IT CAME, AS ONE OBSERVER NOTED,“out of a clear sky.” 1 At 9: 25 pm on 4 August 1914,
the people of Newfoundland, then a self-governing colony of the British Empire, 2 were …

As the Canadian and international record will testify, the years between 1917-1920 were
critically important to workers' aspirations for industrial unionism. An account of the …

Abstract During the First World War a widespread public impression that merchants were
taking advantage of the conflict to extract excessive profits became a major issue in …

“THE RIGHT COURSE, THE BEST COURSE, the only course” was a line used in a 1917
proclamation issued by the Patriotic Association of Newfoundland in an attempt to persuade …

This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized
Newfoundlanders' nutritional health and the bearing those characterizations had on …

“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were
children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children …