Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949
This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized Newfoundlanders’ nutritional health and the bearing those characterizations had on Newfoundland’s constitutional destiny in the lead up to Confederation in 1949. Through the first half of the 20th century, Newfo...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/26243 2023-05-15T17:21:39+02:00 Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 Strikwerda, Eric 2018-05-11 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/26243 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/26243/1882518959 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/26243/1882518960 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/26243 Copyright (c) 2018 Acadiensis Acadiensis; Vol. 47 No. 1 (2018) 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2018 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:40:57Z This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized Newfoundlanders’ nutritional health and the bearing those characterizations had on Newfoundland’s constitutional destiny in the lead up to Confederation in 1949. Through the first half of the 20th century, Newfoundlanders’ nutritional health was the subject of numerous scholarly inquiries. Many of these inquiries concluded that Newfoundlanders themselves were often the authors of their own poor nutritional health. Not surprisingly, this conclusion proved deeply offensive to many Newfoundlanders – so much so that by mid-century the issue of nutrition emerged as no small factor in Newfoundland’s Confederation debates." Cet article explore la relation entre la façon dont les gens de l’extérieur (principalement) décrivaient la santé nutritionnelle des Terre-Neuviens et l’incidence que ces descriptions eurent sur le destin constitutionnel de Terre-Neuve dans la période précédant son entrée dans la Confédération en 1949. La santé nutritionnelle des Terre-Neuviens a fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches universitaires au cours de la première moitié du 20e siècle, dont beaucoup conclurent que les Terre-Neuviens eux-mêmes étaient souvent les responsables de leur mauvaise santé nutritionnelle. Sans surprise, de nombreux Terre-Neuviens trouvèrent cette conclusion très offensante, au point que la question de la nutrition s’imposa comme un facteur important dans les débats sur la Confédération à Terre-Neuve au milieu du siècle. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Terre-Neuve University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Newfoundland |
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This article explores the relationship between the ways (mainly) outsiders characterized Newfoundlanders’ nutritional health and the bearing those characterizations had on Newfoundland’s constitutional destiny in the lead up to Confederation in 1949. Through the first half of the 20th century, Newfoundlanders’ nutritional health was the subject of numerous scholarly inquiries. Many of these inquiries concluded that Newfoundlanders themselves were often the authors of their own poor nutritional health. Not surprisingly, this conclusion proved deeply offensive to many Newfoundlanders – so much so that by mid-century the issue of nutrition emerged as no small factor in Newfoundland’s Confederation debates." Cet article explore la relation entre la façon dont les gens de l’extérieur (principalement) décrivaient la santé nutritionnelle des Terre-Neuviens et l’incidence que ces descriptions eurent sur le destin constitutionnel de Terre-Neuve dans la période précédant son entrée dans la Confédération en 1949. La santé nutritionnelle des Terre-Neuviens a fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches universitaires au cours de la première moitié du 20e siècle, dont beaucoup conclurent que les Terre-Neuviens eux-mêmes étaient souvent les responsables de leur mauvaise santé nutritionnelle. Sans surprise, de nombreux Terre-Neuviens trouvèrent cette conclusion très offensante, au point que la question de la nutrition s’imposa comme un facteur important dans les débats sur la Confédération à Terre-Neuve au milieu du siècle. |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Maligned: Taking Stock of Nutritional Health in Rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 1912-1949 |
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