Old and young ahead a millionaire in seals, being the life history of Captain Abraham Kean

• Main Author: Kean, Abram, 1855-1945
• Other Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Heath, Cranton 1935
• Subjects: Kean; Abram; 1855-1945; Sealers (Persons) > Newfoundland and Labrador > Biography; Sealing > Newfoundland and Labrador; Politicians > Newfoundland and Labrador > Biography; eskimo*; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/76555

Old and Young Ahead Chapter I. Early life on Flowers Island -- The family business -- Illness and death -- The break-up of a partnership -- The first trip to the seal fishery -- Marriage at seventeen -- Death of my father -- Chapter II. A legacy of debt -- A wild gale -- Schooner-building and politics -- A fantastic election -- Heated personalities -- The Queen of the Fleet sails on Friday -- The father of a family goes back to school -- Examinations and a first ship -- Chapter III. Winter in the Wolf -- A snowstorm -- 26,000 whitecoats -- Family vicissitudes -- The new school -- Leaving Flowers Island -- Chapter IV. The loss of the Wolf -- Cabinet minister -- The move to St. John's -- The '98 contract -- Politics and seals -- Chapter V. Death on the ice -- A blinding snowstorm -- A political vendetta -- Mud-slinging and apologies -- Chapter VI. Birth of the Little Stephano Company -- Death of my eldest son -- Women in business -- A chapter of accidents -- A bankrupt insurance company -- "Politics makes strange bedfellows" -- Public scandals -- Backdoor politics -- Chapter VII. My wife's death -- A big loan -- Humble pie -- A trip to Genoa and an unpleasant surprise -- Government by commission -- A digression -- Bowring Brothers -- Temperance -- Chapter VIII. Fish-curing -- The Bay Bulls plant and its critics -- Flakes -- Sir Wilfred Grenfell and St. Anthony -- The Grenfell Mission -- Labrador -- An Eskimo on trial -- Chapter IX. The cod-fishery laws -- Jiggers -- The Pouch Cove dispute -- Cod and motor-boats -- The Bait Act -- Herring-fishery laws -- Scottish practice -- Seal-killing -- Chapter X. Sailing vessels -- The dangers of sealing -- Steamers -- Raftering ice -- A statistical survey -- Close seasons -- A cod-fish bounty -- Agricultural prospects -- Chapter XI. Floating schooners and cod -- A bird's-eye view of the situation -- Pure food laws -- The railway -- Chapter XII. The Commission Government -- The Empire Marketing Board -- Scientific ideas -- Caribou and moose hunting -- Whaling -- "Back to the ...