Huckster shop to superette : an ethnohistorical analysis of the development of the outport shop on the southern Avalon Peninsula (Nfld.)

This thesis attempts to deal with a specific entrepreneurial phenomenon characteristic of many Newfoundland outports in the 20th. century - the outport shop. To this end the study commences with an overview of the mercantile credit system of the 19th. century. The purpose here is to show how this sy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keough, Brian M.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1975
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Online Access:https://research.library.mun.ca/7367/
https://research.library.mun.ca/7367/1/Keough_BrianM.pdf
https://research.library.mun.ca/7367/3/Keough_BrianM.pdf