Fifty Years of My Life

• Main Author: Stansford, Joshua
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: A.H. Stockwell 1952
• Subjects: Grates Cove (N.L.); Newfoundland and Labrador > Social life and customs; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies; walrus*
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/140081

Fifty Years of My Life My boyhood -- My first writing a journal -- My start in business -- Reading the Bible through -- World War begins -- The Grates Cove seal hunters -- The S.S. Beothic’s accident -- Good fishing in the summer of 1916 -- The heaviest seas for many years -- A drifting punt -- My marriage -- Our first baby -- Minnie goes to hospital -- The healing of our baby -- Our first baby boy -- Gales in Trinity Bay -- Big seas at Grates Cove -- The Burin earthquake -- The Depression begins -- The royal commission on Newfoundland -- Walrus captured at Grates Cove -- Invasion by seals -- World War - the second -- The death of James Harnum of Winterton -- The loss of schooner “Mollie” -- My return to business -- Newfoundland confederated with Canada Spine title: Fifty years of my life in Newfoundland