Sponsors and Acknowledgements

This site continues to received support from many sources. The Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (PANL), The Centre for Material Culture Studies (CMCS), Canada's Digital Collections, Parks Canada, Ryan Premises National Historic Site, and Heritage and Fisheries Research are the partners who have made the project possible.

The director of PANL, Shelley Smith, and the Archives staff and the provincial Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation hosted and supported this project, making it a reality. They made our team most welcome at the PANL and helped in a thousand different ways. We thank them all for that. The members of the I.T. Division at the department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation were helpful throughout the project.

The Centre for Material Culture Studies is a research centre directed by Dr. Gerald Pocius at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Ongoing research at the Centre on the architecture and folklife of the salt fisheries is the raison d'être of this exhibit. Many of the site's materials were discovered through research funded by the Centre and its benefactors and in particular the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In its continued support of the CMCS Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) has provided help in many ways.

Heritage and Fisheries Research, headed by Mark Ferguson, proposed and developed the project in collaboration with the above partners.

Canada's Digital Collections of Industry Canada continues to be a major institutional funder who provided the funds which employed the youth on the project.

Parks Canada which commemorates Canada's East Coast Fishery at the Ryan Premises National Historic Site in Bonavista has also generously contributed to the project.

The National Film Board of Canada has kindly permitted the use of clips from five of their films concerning Newfoundland and its fisheries for phase two of this project.

The Battle Harbour Historic Trust has very generously provided access to images, research materials and given of their time to make our essay on down north fisheries possible in phase two. Special thanks to Gordon Slade for the use of his photographs and to him and Joyce Yates for their help.

The Newfoundland Museum provided access to their material culture collections, technical assistance and research materials. These enabled us to construct a new slide show on "the tools of the trade" for our revamped site. We thank them for their generous support.

We would like to thank Abbie and Bruce Whiffen for their generosity. Abbie allowed us to use her excellent essay "Growing up 'up in Cove'" about her childhood in Caplin Cove, Trinity Bay. Her son Bruce permitted us to link to his interesting site.

The following individuals and research groups provided support of various kinds on phase two of the project: Walter Peddle, David Bradley, the Avalon East School Board, the French Services Unit, Department of Canadian Heritage, Identity... [more to come later].

Various other groups have been very helpful in getting specifications for the original project. Staff of the Marine Institute's (MI) Computer Services Division, of Instructional Development and Student Services offered assistance in setting up our technological and HTML specifications.

The archivists at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archives (MUNFLA) continue to be helpful in making MUNFLA collections available and in providing content and form advice.

Staff from the following units and groups at MUN were helpful on the original project: The Microcomputer Workstation Resource Centre (MWRC), the Faculty of Arts Computing Lab, Photographic Services, and particularly Memorial's Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Project.

The National Archives of Canada (NAC) continue to generously allowed us to post a variety of images from the collections. Some of these were taken from Michael Wilkshire's and Gerald Penney's Paul-Émile Miot website. Thanks to them for that access.

The Them Days Archives  generously allowed us to use photographs from their George C. Tutherly and Alder Ford Collections.

Thanks to the Grenfell Historical Society, St. Anthony who provided us with photographs and identifying information for them and for other images on the site.

We would like to thank all of the people who generously permitted the use of their voices, stories and other materials on this site.

Our apologies to anyone we have inadvertently left off this list.

*This site is dedicated to the generations of men, women, and children who worked in the Newfoundland and Labrador salt fisheries.