Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

by Jeff Webb

The years after Newfoundland's confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John's, a new generation of faculty saw the province's transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization through their rural research. Others hoped to document...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442628944
• ISBN13: 9781442628946
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"