Reminiscences of forty-two years of exploration in and about Newfoundland
This is an edition of J. P. Howley's "Reminiscences" (ca. 1914), a memoir based on diaries and notebooks written during his years of exploration and mapping in the interior and along the coasts of Newfoundland. James P. Howley (1847-1918) was a civil servant, explorer, geologist, writ...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
2009
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| Online Access: | https://research.library.mun.ca/1895/ https://research.library.mun.ca/1895/5/Reminiscences.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1895/2/Reminiscences_Images.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1895/7/Reminiscences_Images.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1895/8/Reminiscences.pdf |
| Summary: | This is an edition of J. P. Howley's "Reminiscences" (ca. 1914), a memoir based on diaries and notebooks written during his years of exploration and mapping in the interior and along the coasts of Newfoundland. James P. Howley (1847-1918) was a civil servant, explorer, geologist, writer, authority on the Beothuks. He spent summers between 1868 and 1909 in southern, western, and northeastern parts of the island, with crews of residents and Micmacs, in geological examinations, surveying, determining railway routes, and searching for coal deposits. The author hoped his diaries, when put into book form, would "prove of some interest to future explorers and give some idea of what the conditions of travelling in the interior were before the advent of the Railway." |
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