Bibliography of Newfoundland Salt-Fish Sources

NOTE: This bibliography is from Mark Ferguson's M.A. thesis "Making Fish: Salt-Cod Processing on the East Coast of Newfoundland -- A Study in Historic Occupational Folklife." (Memorial U. of Newfoundland, 1996).

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Abbott, Roland W. 1987. The Three Seas. St. John's: Robinson Blackmore.

Alexander, David. 1976. ``Newfoundland's Traditional Economy and Development to 1934.'' Buckner and Frank 1988, 11-33.

---. 1977. The Decay of Trade: An Economic History of the Newfoundland Saltfish Trade, 1935-1965. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 19. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Allison, C., S. Jacobs, and M. Porter. 1989. Winds of Change: Women in Northwest Commercial Fishing. Seattle: U of Washington P.

Andersen, Raoul, ed. 1977. ``Bound for Burin, Captain Arch Thornhill.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 73.1: 17-22.

---, ed. 1979. North Atlantic Maritime Cultures: Anthropological Essays on Changing Adaptations. The Hague: Mouton.

---. 1988. ``Usufruct and Contradiction: Territorial Custom and Abuse in Newfoundland's Banks Schooner and Dory Fishery.'' MAST 1.2: 81-102.

Andrew, Raymond. 1969. ``The Role of Women in the Port de Grave Fishery in 1969.'' Unpublished essay. Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Anspach, Lewis A. 1971 [1810]. Duckworth's Newfoundland: Notes from a Report to Governor Duckworth. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's.

---. 1827. A History of the Island of Newfoundland: Containing a Description of the Island, the Banks, the Fisheries, and the Trade of Newfoundland, and the Coast of Labrador. 2nd ed. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper.

Antler, Ellen Pildes. 1977. ``Women's Work in Newfoundland Fishing Families.'' Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal 2: 106-113.

---. 1981. Fisherman, Fisherwoman, Rural Proletariat: Capitalist Commodity Production in the Newfoundland Fishery. Diss. U of Connecticut.

Antler, Ellen P., and James Faris. 1979. ``Adaptation to Changes in Technology and Government Policy: A Newfoundland Example (Cat Harbour).'' Andersen 1979, 129-54.

Barbour, Job. 1981 [1932]. Forty-Eight Days Adrift: The Voyage of the ``Neptune II'' from Newfoundland to Scotland. St. John's: Breakwater.

Bochel, Margaret. 1979. The Story of Nairn Fisher Girls at the Gutting. Nairn, Scot.: Nairn Fishertown Museum.

Briggs, Charles L. 1987. Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Sciences Research. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Buckner, P.A., and David Frank, eds. 1988. Atlantic Canada After Confederation. 2nd ed. Vol. 2 of The Acadiensis Reader. Fredericton: Acadiensis P.

Budgell, Lily E. M. 1979. ``The Art of Making Fish in Change Islands, Notre Dame Bay, as told by William Wells.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 79-466. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Bulgin, Lloyd E. 1978. ``The Inshore Cod Fishery of Twillingate: Methods of Catching, and the Customs and Practices in the Curing and Drying Process.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 78-198. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Burnett, John, ed. 1984. Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s. 1974. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Butcher, David R. 1987. Following the Fishing: The Days When Bands of Scots Fisher Girls Followed the Herring Fleets Around Britain. Newton Abbott: Tops'l-David and Charles.

Butler, Gary R. 1983. ``Culture, Cognition, and Communication: Fishermen's Location-Finding in L'Anse-à-Canards, Newfoundland.'' Canadian Folklore canadien 5: 7-21.

Butler, Victor. 1975. The Little Nord Easter: Reminiscences of a Placentia Bayman. Ed. W. Wareham. St. John's: Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Butt, Belle. 1979. ``Techniques for Obtaining High Quality Salt Cod Fish.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 79-398. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Byington, Robert H., ed. 1978. Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife. Smithsonian Folklife Studies 3. Los Angeles: California Folklore Society.

Cadigan, Sean. 1990. ``Battle Harbour in Transition: Merchants, Fishermen, and the State in the Struggle for Relief in a Labrador Community during the 1930s.'' Labour 26: 125-50.

---. 1995. ``Whipping Them into Shape: State Refinement of Patriarchy among Conception Bay Fishing Families, 1787-1825.'' McGrath, Neis, and Porter 1995, 48-59.

Casey, George J. 1971. ``Traditions and Neighbourhoods: The Folklife of a Newfoundland Fishing Outport.'' MA Thes. Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Census of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1891, 1911, 1921, 1935. St. John's: J. W. Withers; Colonial Secretary's Office; Department of Public Health and Welfare..

Chappell, Edward. 1818. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador. London: Printed for J. Mawman.

Chiaramonte, Louis J. 1970. Craftsman-Client Contracts: Interpersonal Relations in a Newfoundland Fishing Community. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 10. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Clements, W. M. 1980. ``Personal Narrative, the Interview Context and the Question of Tradition.'' Western Folklore 39: 106-12.

Coaker, William F., ed. 1984 [1930]. Twenty Years of the Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland, From 1909-1929. St. John's: Creative.

Collins, John. 1682. Salt and Fishery. London: Printed by A Godbid and J. Playford.

Conway, Rose Noonan. 1980. ``Fishing in Bay-de-Verde in Days Gone By.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 76.4: 33-35.

Crewe, Gertrude. 1981. ``Past and Present Fishing in Bonavista.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 81-379. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.


Davis, Dona Lee. 1988. `` `Shore Skippers' and `Grass Widows': Active and Passive Women's Roles in a Newfoundland Fishery.'' Nadel-Klein and Davis 1988, 211-229.

De Boilieu, Lambert. 1969 [1861]. Recollections of Labrador Life. Ed. T.F. Bredin. Toronto: Ryerson P.

Devine, P.K. 1937. Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases and Expressions, Their Origin and Meaning. St. John's: Robinson & Co.

---. 1990 [1915]. In the Good Old Days! St. John's: Harry Cuff.

Dormer, Peter. 1994. The Art of the Maker. London: Thames and Hudson.

Downing, John. 1676. ``The Maner of Catching and Makeing Drie Fishe in Newland'' (sic). Egerton mss. 2395, 565-566. British Library, London.

Dundes, Alan. 1969. ``The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory.'' Journal of the Folklore Institute 6: 5-19.

Evans, George Ewart. 1962. Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay. London: Faber.

---. 1977. Where Beards Wag All: The Relevance of the Oral Tradition. 2nd ed. London: Faber.

Faris, James, C. 1973. Cat Harbour: A Newfoundland Fishing Settlement. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 3. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Fay, C.R. 1956. Life and Labour in Newfoundland. Toronto: U of Toronto P.

Feltham, John. 1990. ``The Dirty Thirties.'' This Land 4.1: 30-39.

---. 1992. Bonavista Bay Revisited. St. John's: Harry Cuff.

Festing, Sally. 1977. Fishermen. Newton Abbot: David and Charles.

Firestone, Melvin M. 1967. Brothers and Rivals: Patrilocality in Savage Cove. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 5. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Fizzard, Garfield. 1987. Unto the Sea: A History of Grand Bank. Grand Bank: Grand Bank Heritage Society.

Frost, Jenette. 1979. ``The Traditional Method of Salting and Drying Cod in Grates Cove, Trinity Bay.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 79-544. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Froude, John W. 1983 [1939]. On the High Seas: The Diary of Capt. John W. Froude, Twillingate -- 1863-1939. St. John's: Jesperson.

Geistdoerfer, Aliette. 1987. Pêcheurs Acadiens, Pêcheurs Madelinots: Ethnologie d'une Communauté de Pêcheurs. Québec: Les Presses de L'Université Laval.

Gilmore, Janet. 1990. ``Fishermen Stereotypes: Sources and Symbols.'' Canadian Folklore canadien 12: 17-38.

Gladwin, George E. 1877. Pen and Ink Sketches, Coast and Harbors of Labrador. Drawn by Geo. E. Gladwin. Summer of 1876. Worcester, Mass.

Greenleaf, Elisabeth, and Grace Y. Mansfield, eds. 1933. Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland. Cambridge: Harvard UP.

Handcock, W. Gordon. 1989. So Longe as There Comes Noe Women: Origins of English Settlement in Newfoundland. St. John's: Breakwater.

Handcock, W. Gordon, and C.W. Sanger. 1981. Outports on the Northeast Coast of Newfoundland: A Field Guide. St. John's: Dept. of Geography, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Hatcher, Eunice. 1978. ``The Role of Women in Traditional Newfoundland (early 1900's).'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 78-399. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Head, C. Grant. 1976. 18th Century Newfoundland. A Geographer's Perspective. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Hiller, James K. 1993. ``Newfoundland Confronts Canada 1867-1949.'' The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation. Ed. E.R. Forbes and D.A. Muise. Toronto: U of Toronto P. 349-381.

Hiller, James K. and Peter Neary, eds. 1980. Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Toronto: U of Toronto P.

Hiller, James K., et al. 1987. Roundtable Discussion of Gerald M. Sider's Culture and Class in Anthropology and History. St. John's: Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Holtzberg-Call, Maggie. 1992. The Lost World of the Craft Printer. Urbana: U of Illinois P.

Hussey, Greta. 1981. Our Life on Lear's Room, Labrador. Ed. Susan Shiner. St. John's: Robinson-Blackmore.


Innis, Harold A. 1954. The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy. Rev. ed. Toronto: U of Toronto P.

Johnson, Paula J., ed. 1988. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum; Charlottesville: UP of Virginia.

Jukes, Joseph Beete. 1993 [1842]. Jukes' Excursions: Being a revised edition of Joseph Beete Jukes' ``Excursions in and about Newfoundland, During the Years 1839 and 1840.'' Eds. Robert Cuff and Derek Wilton. St. John's: Harry Cuff.

Lehr, Genevieve, ed., with Anita Best. 1985. Come and I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook. Toronto: U of Toronto P.

Little, Linda. 1990. ``Collective Action in Outport Newfoundland: A Case Study from the 1830s.'' Labour 26: 7-35.

Lloyd, Timothy C., and Patrick B. Mullen. 1990. Lake Erie Fisherman: Work, Identity, and Tradition. Urbana: U of Illinois P.

Lovelace, Martin L. 1979. `` `We had words': Narratives of Verbal Conflicts.'' Lore and Language 3.1: 29-37.

Lummis, Trevor. Occupation and Society: The East Anglian Fishermen, 1880-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

McCarl, Robert S. 1978. ``Occupational Folklife: A Theoretical Hypothesis.'' Byington 1978, 3-18.

---. 1980. ``Occupational Folklife: An Examination of the Expressive Aspects of Work Culture with Particular Reference to Fire Fighters.'' Diss. Memorial U of Newfoundland.

McCay, Bonnie J. 1976. `` `Appropriate Technology' and Coastal Fishermen of Newfoundland.'' Diss. Columbia U.

---. 1979. `` `Fish is Scarce:' Fisheries Modernization on Fogo Island, Newfoundland.'' Andersen 1979, 155-88.

MacDonald, Ian D.H. 1987. `To Each His Own': William Coaker and the Fishermen's Protective Union in Newfoundland Politics, 1908-1925. Ed. J.K. Hiller. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 33. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

McGrath, Carmelita, Barbara Neis, and Marilyn Porter, eds. 1995. Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador, A Collage. St. John's: Killick P.

MacKinnon, Richard P. 1990. ``Vernacular Architecture in the Codroy Valley: Local and External Influences on the Development of a Building Tradition.'' Diss. Memorial U of Newfoundland.

MacPherson, N.L. 1935. The Dried Codfish Industry. Reports of the Newfoundland Fishery Research Laboratory 2.4. St. John's: Division of Fishery Research, Newfoundland Department of Natural Resources.

Margaret, Len. 1980. Fish & Brewis, Toutens & Tales: Recipes and Recollections from St. Leonard's, Newfoundland. Canada's Atlantic Folklore and Folklife Ser. 7. St. John's: Breakwater.

Martin, Kent O. 1979. ``Play by the Rules or Don't Play at All: Space Division and Resource Allocation in a Rural Newfoundland Fishing Community.'' Andersen 1979, 277-98.

Matthews, Keith. 1988. Lectures on the History of Newfoundland 1500-1830. St. John's: Breakwater.

Matthiessen, Peter. 1986. Men's Lives. New York: Random House.

Mifflen, Jesse. 1983. Journey to Yesterday in the Out-harbours of Newfoundland. St. John's: Harry Cuff.

Millais, J.G. 1907. Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways. London: Longmans, Green.

Miller, Brian. 1979. ``Fish making in communities in Trinity Bay: in reference to the habits of Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Joe.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 79-377. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Moussette, Marcel. 1979. Fishing Methods Used in the St. Lawrence River and Gulf. History and Archaeology Ser. 22. Ottawa: National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada.

Mullen, Patrick B. 1978. I Heard the Old Fishermen Say: Folklore of the Texas Gulf Coast. Austin: U of Texas P.

Murray, Hilda Chaulk. 1979. More than 50%: Woman's Life in a Newfoundland Outport, 1900-1950. Canada's Atlantic Folklore and Folklife Ser. 3. St. John's: Breakwater.


Nadel-Klein, Jane, and Dona Lee Davis, eds. 1988. To Work and to Weep: Women in Fishing Economies. Social and Economic Papers 18. St. John's: ISER, Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Newfoundland Commission of Enquiry Investigating the Seafisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador other than the Sealfishery, 1937. 1937. Report of the Commission of Enquiry Investigating the Seafisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador other than the Sealfishery, 1937. St. John's: Dicks & Co.

---. 1937. Transcripts from the Newfoundland Commission of Enquiry Investigating the Seafisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador other than the Sealfishery, 1937, ts. GN 6. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's.

Newfoundland Inshore Fisheries Association. 1991. A Preliminary Report on the History of the Cod Trap Fishery in Newfoundland. St. John's: Newfoundland Inshore Fisheries Association.

Newfoundland Royal Commission, 1933. 1933. Newfoundland Royal Commission 1933 Report. London: H.M. Stationery Office.

Neis, Barbara. 1980. ``A Sociological Analysis of the Factors Responsible for the Regional Distribution of the Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland.'' MA Thes. Memorial U of Newfoundland.

---. 1993. ``From `Shipped Girls' to `Brides of the State': The Transition from Familial to Social Patriarchy in the Newfoundland Fishing Industry.'' Canadian Journal of Regional Science 26.2: 185-211.

O'Brien, Patricia. 1992. The Grenfell Obsession: An Anthology. St. John's, NF: Creative Publishers.

O'Flaherty, Patrick. 1975. ``Looking Backwards: the Milieu of Old Newfoundland Outports.'' Journal of Canadian Studies 10.1: 3-9.

---. 1995. ``Long Beach: then and now.'' Evening Telegram 30 July 1995: 4.

Ommer, Rosemary E. 1981. From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Cod Fishery, 1767-1886. Montréal: McGill-Queen's UP.

---. 1989. ``Merchant Credit and the Informal Economy: Newfoundland 1919-1929.'' Canadian Historical Association Historical Papers/Communications Historiques 24: 167-89.

---. 1994. ``One Hundred Years of Fishery Crises in Newfoundland.'' Acadiensis 23.2: 5-20.

Perley, M.H. 1852. Reports of the Sea and River Fisheries of New Brunswick. 2nd ed. Fredericton: J. Simpson.

Pocius, Gerald L. 1991. A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundland. Montréal: McGill-Queen's UP.

---. 1992. ``The House that Poor Jack Built: Architectural Stages in the Newfoundland Fishery.'' The Sea and Culture of Atlantic Canada: A Multidisciplinary Sampler. Ed. Larry McCann with Carrie MacMillan. Sackville: Centre for Canadian Studies. 62-105.

Porter, Marilyn. 1993. Place and Persistence in the Lives of Newfoundland Women. Aldershot: Avebury.

Rixon, Daphne, L. 1981. ``The Role of the Fishery in the Lives of the Humphries Family of Cape Freels -- Emphasizing the Art of Making Fish.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 81-409. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Rosenberg, Neil V. 1975. Folklore and Oral History. Memorial U of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Publication Series: Bibliographical and Special Ser. 3. St. John's: Memorial U of Newfoundland.

Russell, Joan. 1971. ``The Folklore of my Community.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 71-120a. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Ryan, Shannon. 1977. ``The Personal Experience Narrator as Historian: The First Time Andy Short was Shipwrecked.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 73.2: 4-13.


---. 1980. ``The Newfoundland Salt Cod Trade in the Nineteenth Century.'' Hiller and Neary 1980, 40-66.

Scott, John. 1975. `` `I Don't Think There's Anything in the World that the Common Man Will Take a Bigger Chance [for] Than He'll Take for a Seal.': Some Contributions of Oral History Toward an Understanding of the Newfoundland Disaster.'' Rosenberg 1975, 81-90.

Sider, Gerald M. 1986. Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Silk, Victoria. 1995. ``Women and the Fishery.'' McGrath, Neis, and Porter 1995, 264-69.

Small, Lawrence G. 1979. The Interrelationship of Work and Talk in a Newfoundland Fishing Community. Diss. U of Pennsylvania.

Smith, Nicholas. 1936. Fifty-two Years at the Labrador Fishery. London: A.H. Stockwell.

Storey, Keith, ed. 1993. The Newfoundland Groundfish Fisheries: Defining the Reality. Proc. of a Conference. St. John's: ISER.

Story, G.M., W.J. Kirwin, J.D.A Widdowson, eds. 1990. Dictionary of Newfoundland English. 2nd ed. St. John's: Breakwater.

Sturt, George. 1967. Journals. Ed. E.D. Mackerness. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

---. 1993 [1923]. The Wheelwright's Shop. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Sweeny, Robert C.H. 1995. ``The Costs of Modernity: The Role of the Human Sciences in the Present Crisis Facing Newfoundland.'' The Third Biennial Conference on Culture, Technology and Change in the Americas. Ed. Harry E. Vanden. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes; Tampa: U of South Florida. In press.

Sweeny, Robert C.H., David Bradley, and Robert Hong. 1992. ``Movement, Options and Costs: Indexes as Historical Evidence, a Newfoundland Example.'' Acadiensis 22.1: 111-21.

Taylor, David. 1982. Boat building in Winterton, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.

---. 1992. Documenting Marine Folklife: An Introductory Guide. Publications of the American Folklife Centre 18. Washington: Library of Congress.

Thompson, Paul R., Tony Wailey, and Trevor Lummis. 1983. Living the Fishing. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Tilly, Ernest. 1956. ``Ye Olden Times in Catalina.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 55.3: 4+.

---. 1958a. ``Memories of an Oldtimer.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 57.1: 14+.

---. 1958b. ``Ye Olden Times in Catalina.'' Newfoundland Quarterly 57.4: 18+.

Tizzard, Aubrey M. 1984. On Sloping Ground: Reminiscences of Outport Life In Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. Ed. J.D.A. Widdowson. St. John's: Breakwater.

Walsh, Sir Albert, et al. 1953. Newfoundland Fisheries Development Committee Report. St. John's: Guardian.

Warren, Catherine A. J. 1979. ``The Description of Curing Fish in Several Communities: St. Vincent's, New Bonaventure, New Perlican, Grates Cove and Hare Bay.'' Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive ms. 79-587. Memorial U of Newfoundland, St. John's.

Wells, William E. 1993. ``Options -- Real or Imagined -- The Challenge for Change.'' Storey 1993, 209-215.

Whiffen, Bruce. 1993. Prime Berth: An Account of Bonavista's Early Years. St. John's: Harry Cuff.

Whiteley, Albert S. 1977. A Century on Bonne Esperance: The Saga of the Whiteley Family. Ottawa.

Widdowson, J.D.A. 1987. ``English Dialects and Folklore: A Neglected Heritage.'' Folklore 98.1: 41-52.

Yoder, Don. 1976. ``Folklife Studies in American Scholarship.'' American Folklife. Ed. Don Yoder. Austin: U of Texas P. 3-18.