“The mill whistle was blowing and the Germans were coming” : Industrial Soundscapes, World War II, and Remembrance in Corner Brook, Newfoundland

• Published in: Ethnologies
• Main Author: Tulk, Janice
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Canadienne d’Ethnologie et de Folklore 2012
• Subjects: Corner Brook; Retour; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1026150ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1026150ar

In summer 2007, while conducting maintenance on the mill’s structure, the Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Mill silenced the whistle that had been part of the local “soundscape” (Schafer 1977) for more than eighty years. When the whistle did not return immediately, public outcry was voiced in the local n...