| Summary: | The papers and presentations from the Amulree's Legacy symposium, held in St. John's on 24-25 March 2001. Its goal was to examine the conclusions of the 1933 Newfoundland Royal Commission report and the impact these had on the way Newfoundlanders are seen and see themselves. The Amulree Report and the lessons of history / Jeff A. Webb -- Newfoundland history : "a tale of murder and mayhem" or "what I learned in school" / John P. Greene -- My history lessons / Helen Porter -- The Amulree Report : an introduction / Terry Bishop Stirling -- Truck, paternalism and ecology : the struggle between fishers and merchants in the 19th and early 20th Centuries / Sean Cadigan -- Self-Reliance : the story of a family / Leslie Harris -- Poverty, dependence and self-reliance : politics, Newfoundland history and the Amulree Report / James Overton -- 'The Massachusetts Standard' : fisheries innovation in early Twentieth-Century Newfoundland / William Reeves -- Corruption and collapse, or did Squires do it? / James K. Hiller -- Culture and identity / Edythe Goodridge -- Culture and identity / Chris Brookes -- Finding ourselves / Maura Hanrahan. Includes bibliographical references.
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