'A large house on the downs': household archaeology and middle-class gentility in early 19th-century Ferryland, Newfoundland

• Main Author: Williams, Duncan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2019
• Subjects: Downfall; The Downfall; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/13777/; https://research.library.mun.ca/13777/1/thesis.pdf

This thesis uses a household-based archaeological approach to examine changing settlement patterns and lifeways associated with a period of crucial change on Newfoundland’s southern Avalon Peninsula – namely the first half of the 19th century. The period witnessed a significant increase in permanent...