Six months of a Newfoundland missionary's journal, from February to August, 1835
Second edition. -- Anglican Archdeacon of St. John's Edward Wix spent six months visiting the southern and western coasts of Newfoundland. The candid descriptions he provided of the inhabitant's lives and situations were a factor in the Church's ultimate decision to increase its relig...
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Smith, Elder and Co.
1836
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/88580 |
| Summary: | Second edition. -- Anglican Archdeacon of St. John's Edward Wix spent six months visiting the southern and western coasts of Newfoundland. The candid descriptions he provided of the inhabitant's lives and situations were a factor in the Church's ultimate decision to increase its religious presence by appointing a bishop to the island. Includes meteorological tables for January-June 1835 (p. [259]-264). (Frederick Jones, "Wix, Edward," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9.) |
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