About Memorial University Press
Memorial University Press has published scholarly books on the North Atlantic region for more than 55 years. Aligning with the geographic reality and research priorities of Memorial University, the press has a special, but not exclusive, focus on issues pertinent to Newfoundland and Labrador, and Atlantic Canada more broadly. We publish illuminating and diverse research on topics ranging from Indigenous issues, to energy and the environment, to food security, to fisheries, to folklore, by authors from academic institutions across Canada and internationally, as well as independent scholars and nonacademic experts and practitioners.
History
The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) was founded at Memorial University in 1961 to foster Newfoundland-related research. Its publication arm, ISER Books, followed just five years later in 1966 Housed in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, ISER Books initially published doctoral theses of ISER research fellows relating to the uniqueness of Newfoundland in the fields of economics, anthropology, and sociology This mandate held through the 1960s, but soon after, recognizing Memorial University as a centre of academic excellence for many different kinds of research on both the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the wider North Atlantic, ISER Books expanded its mandate to include scholarly work about the society, economy, and culture of the North Atlantic region.
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In its 59 years, ISER Books has published more than 120 books, of which more than 100 are still in print, including exceptional sellers and award-winning publications. The press has set a high bar for scholarship, and has emerged as a leader in research about the North Atlantic region. In 2021, as approved by the Vice President’s Council in October 2020, ISER Books rebranded as Memorial University Press The press ’ s priority for publishing high calibre research focused on the North Atlantic region remains the same, and ensures our ongoing alignment with the geographic reality and research strengths of Memorial University.
Territory Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
We strive to be responsible stewards of the land and to respect the cultures, ceremonies, and traditions of all who call it home. Memorial University Press is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization, and we pledge to dedicate ourselves to working in a spirit of truth and reconciliation to make a better future for all.
Performance and Protest
Inuit of Labrador and the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893
by Nigel Markham
ISBN: 978-1-990445-28-6 • paperback • 212 pp • 6 x 9”
$27.95 • ebook forthcoming
By unravelling the complexities of their representation and experiences, Performance and Protest examines the participation of Inuit from Labrador in ethnological exhibits at the close of the 19th century Contents
Acknowledgements
NotestotheReader Introduction
1 TheVoyageoftheEvelena: Aiviektok
2 TheVoyageoftheEvelena:The “MoravianCoast”
3 TheVoyageoftheEvelena: Nachvak
4 ChicagoandtheWorld’s ColumbianExposition
5 EthnologyandtheFair
6 The“EsquimauxVillage”
7 AfterChicago
8 Aftermath
Postscript
Appendix1 Appendix2 Appendix3
Appendix4
Bibliography
In the summer of 1892, an American company charted a schooner to coastal Labrador to recruit Inuit for “The Esquimaux Village,” an ethnological exhibit to be presented the following year at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Promised wages, room and board, and hunting provisions upon their return, sixty Inuit boarded the Evelena in the fall, bound for Chicago. Performance and Protest delves into the story of Inuit at the Exposition examining not only where they went and what transpired during their time in Chicago, but also who they were Presented as a living exhibit to contrast the fair’s broader effort to highlight the progress and achievements of Western civilization, the men, women, and children housed at the exposition were portrayed as a primitive and exotic people
Subjected to poor living conditions and denied agency in their representation, their dissatisfaction grew, culminating in a landmark moment when the Inuit challenged their exploitation in court and set up their own independent camp outside the Exposition grounds. This defiant act not only questioned the fairness of their treatment, but also challenged the pervasive narratives that had been imposed upon them, forcing a reconsideration of their humanity and cultural dignity
By unravelling the complexities of their representation and experiences, Performance and Protest offers a valuable understanding of Inuit identity, resilience, and agency in a period marked by exploitation
The E.J. Pratt Lectures, 1968-2005
edited by Andrew Loman
ISBN: 978-1-778530-67-8 • paperback • 376 pp • 5.5 x 7.5”
$27 95 • ebook forthcoming Co-published with Breakwater Books
Compilingmorethanfiftyyearsofthebest poeticinsightsfromtherenownedseries,a selectionoftheEJ PrattLecturesare collectedtogetherforthefirsttimeinthis commemorativeedition.
For more than fifty years, Memorial University’s E J Pratt Lecture Series has invited eminent critics and artists to St John’s, Newfoundland, to speak on the topics that lie at the heart of their work. This special edition, published to coincide with Memorial’s 100th anniversary, gathers a selection of the Lectures, beginning with the one that inaugurated the series in 1968, Northrop Frye’s “Silence in the Sea ” George Elliott Clarke, Stan Dragland, Seamus Heaney, and Ursula K. Le Guin are among the E J Pratt Laureates represented in this volume, which culminates with Madeleine Thien’s 2025 Lecture. An album reflecting a changing discipline, this volume is filled with a half-century of luminous writing and trenchant insights into poetry and poetics
Contents
Introduction:AndrewLoman
1 NorthropFrye:SilenceintheSea (1968)
2 DavidLodge:Dialogueinthe ModernNovel(1985)
3 UrsulaK LeGuin:Voice/Text(1990)
4 LindaHutcheon:Ironyandthe PoweroftheUnsaid(1992)
5 SeamusHeaney:Extendingthe Alphabet:OnChristopherMarlowe’s “HeroandLeander”(1993)
6 StanDragland:RomancingHistory: WayneJohnstonandTheColonyof UnrequitedDreams(2001)
7 PatrickO’Flaherty:Poetryand PoliticsinNewfoundlandinthe1940s (2013)
8 AnneCarson:Lectureonthe HistoryofSkywriting(2016)
9 GeorgeElliottClarke:TheQuest fora“National”Nationalism:E J Pratt’sEpicAmbitions,“Race” Consciousness,andthe ContradictionsofCanadianIdentity (2018)
10 MadeleineThien:UntitledLecture (2025)
Contributors
Angela Antle, Terry BishopStirling, Jessica Bound, Andreae Callanan, J T H Connor, Heidi Coombs, Linda Cullum, Elizabeth Dane, Lesley Derraugh, Violet Drake, Sheila Hallett, Joanne Harris, Gemma Hickey, Robert Hong, Daze Jefferies, Mi’sel Joe, Sharon King-Campbell, Julia Laite, Kate Lahey, Shannon Lewis-Simpson, Dave Lough, Jennifer Morgan, Emily Murphy, Sheila O’Neill, Jasmine Paul, Andrea Procter, Colleen Quigley, Shruti Raheja, Amy Sheppard, Sarah Simpson, Gina Snooks, Jocelyn Thorpe, Patricia Way, and Miriam Wright
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Dear Mr. Smallwood
Confederation in the Words of Those Who Lived It
edited by Vicki Hallett and Sonja Boon
ISBN: 978-1-990445-24-8 • paperback • 352 pp • 6 x 9”
$31.95 • ebook forthcoming
The lives and stories of everyday Newfoundlanders and Labradorians form a collective autobiography through letters written to J.R. Smallwood
Dear Mr. Smallwood considers the lives and stories of everyday Newfoundlanders and Labradorians as they navigated what was arguably the biggest political transition of their lifetimes: the entry of the former nation of Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada. Drawing on one of the province’s richest archival treasures, the letters written to J R Smallwood before and during his time as premier, contributors unearth the hopes, dreams, discontents, and desires of ordinary people living in an extraordinary time.
A collaborative project that brings together archival materials, personal reflections, scholarly essays, and poetic and visual responses, Dear Mr Smallwood moves discussions beyond the polarizing figure of J.R. Smallwood and recentres the conversations about Confederation to consider how Newfoundlanders and Labradorians understood themselves and their world at the time of Confederation
Together, these letters, reflections, and essays can be seen as a layered patchwork quilt The letters to Smallwood a small sampling of 250 chosen by contributors from an archival collection of thousands are the colourful swatches that reveal not just the individual voices of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians of all ages at mid-century, but also the beating life narrative the collective autobiography of this place itself.
We Were In It
Stories about Energy Transition
edited by Lisa Moore and Sheena Wilson
illustrated by Kamei Lim
ISBN: 978-1-990445-37-8 • paperback • 184 pp 10 x 7 ” $35 00 • ebook forthcoming
Afusionofscholarship,literarywriting, research,andcreativity;thesestories attacktheproblemofclimatecrisis throughfiction.
“These fictions are for you, whether you are a big reader or a literary scholar or a creative writer or a teacher or a student or a policy maker or an activist or all of the above, or just someone who has stumbled on these stories through serendipity and were curious enough to crack the spine. They are research-creation experiments – meaning simply: we combined the research and knowledge about climate crisis and energy transition of our group with artistic freedom and imagination in order to articulate where we are, and how to think our way forward."
— Lisa Moore and Sheena Wilson
Bringing together academics, scientists, creative writers, visual artists, lawyers, and policy makers, We Were In It is a collaborative effort to attack the problem of climate crisis from very different backgrounds and perspectives, through fiction The fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity allows the strengths of many forms of writing to address the unfolding crisis of our modern petrocultures. Relying on the brevity of flash fiction to reflect the ticking clock of the climate crisis, the stories contained in this collection are slick as oil but against oil They are a speculation about the future, taking notes from the present and the past as a portal to a better world
Contributors
RuthBeer,SoheilaEsfahani, SatoshiIkeda,EvanDavies, CaitlinFisher,LisaMoore,Luke Johnson,NatalieLoveless, KurtisMcadam,JaniceMakokis, PatrickMahon,Sourayan Mookerjea,ScottSmallwood, SheenaWilson Detailedtableofcontents: memorialuniversitypressca/Bo oks/W/We-Were-in-It
Berries of Labrador
by Ellen Bryan Obed
illustrated by Valerie Powell
ISBN: 978-1-990445-27-9 • paperback • 116 pp • 8 x 8”
$26 95
Contents
Preface
List of Berries
How Entries for Each Berry are
Structured
Berries
Illustrated Botanical Glossary Index Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Other Sources for Northern Berries
Bibliography
A literary mixed-berry jam, combining storytelling with science to celebrate more than 40 species of berries and their various uses, from food to medicine.
Berries grow in every part of Labrador bogs, barrens, forests, gulches, roadsides, yards, mountains, open sand, and wet, shady streambanks. Ripening red, orange, blue, purple, black, or white Tasting bitter, juicy, sour, sweet, dry Like wintergreen Like tobacco.
Berries of Labrador combines storytelling with science to celebrate more than forty species of berries and their various uses, from food to medicine Beautiful watercolour illustrations by Valerie Powell and short anecdotes from community members accompany each description, highlighting the cultural, historical, and ecological significance of the berries of Labrador
Extraordinary Passages
The Life and Times of Margaret Iris Duley, Newfoundland's Pathbreaking Novelist
by Margot I. Duley
ISBN: 978-1-990445-31-6 • paperback • 528 pp • 6 x 9”
$34 95 • ebook available
An engaging and authoritative literary biography depicting the courageous life and turbulent times of Margaret Duley, Newfoundland's first internationally acclaimed novelist.
“Margot Duley…follows in her aunt’s footsteps, blending erudition and a gift for crafting a riveting story. [This] biography provides intimate insights into the shaping of a writer who never let church, empire, and patriarchy dampen her feminist, anti-war spirit.”
Carol Bruneau, Atlantic Books Today
Skillfully interwoven with historical events, including the devastating impact of the first World War, the women ’ s suffrage movement, the Depression, the loss of Newfoundland’s selfgovernment, and Confederation with Canada, Extraordinary Passages explores the influence of these critical times on Duley’s life and writing Within these pages, Margaret Duley is freed from flattened descriptions of her as a wealthy jeweller’s daughter, unearthing the origins of her lifelong search for a fairer society and her deep appreciation for her island home. Disillusioned with Christian institutions that had justified war and entrapped women, she sought new answers at home and abroad in her search for spirituality, feminism, and antimilitarism.
Reflecting on personal knowledge, novels, letters, and a wide array of other sources, Margot I. Duley draws a lively portrait of the brilliant, complex and indomitable woman regarded as a precursor to modern feminist writers.
Contents
Photographs
Preface: Methodology and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situating Margaret Iris
Duley, Her Life and Work
1: Her Complex Family Setting
2: Her Parents' Marriage and Her Childhood in St John's
3: English Interlude: Drama, Suffrage and Youthful Explorations
4: The Great War through Margaret's Eyes
5: Finding Her Own Way, 1920–1936
6: Margaret's Spiritual Journey in Life and Literature
7: The Eyes of the Gull: Creativity, Folklore and Finances
8: Cold Pastoral: Romanticism, Theosophy and Competing Realities
9: Novelty on Earth: As Biography and Tale
10: Highway to Valour: As Biography, Theology and Tale
11: Winds Variable: War, Dislocation and Highway's Release
12: Critical Times, 1941–43: Novelty's
Publication and Return Home
13: Anti-War Writing and the "Lost Novel"
14: The End of Eras, 1945–52
15: Overseas Interregnum, 1952–53
16: Reclaiming Newfoundland
17: Her Fading Days and Dénouement
Postscript Endnotes
Bibliography Index Genealogy Charts
Contributors
Jennifer Brenton, Jennifer Charles, Alan Cobb, Zita Cobb, Senan Cooke, Joan Cranston, Susan Cull, Michelle Darlington, Sam Elliot, Rebecca Franklin, Hadley Friedland, Diane Hodgins, Jamie Jamieson, Glenn Jenkins, Felicity Kelliher, Nicola Kent, Sara Langer, Johnny Mack, Lorenzo Magzul, Matthew Murphy, Elizabeth Murphy, Sinead O’Higgins, Kimberly Orren, Astrid V Pérez Piñán, Liz Riches, Amy Rowsell, Cloy-e-iis Judith Sayers, Gordon Slade, Wendy K Smith, Neil Stott, Blair Winsor
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Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise
edited by Natalie Slawinski, Brennan Lowery, Ario Seto, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Kelly Vodden
ISBN: 978-1-990445-17-0 • paperback • 340 pp • 6 x 9”
$29 95 • ebook available • open access volume available
Academics and practitioners introduce the PLACE Framework as a new approach for exploring how place-based social enterprises revitalize communities.
“This scholastic gem radiates with the fervor of academic excellence and grassroots empowerment.”
Israr Qureshi, Australian National University
"The PLACE Framework is for anyone who is compelled to transform their place through bottomup strategies to create home-grown solutions."
Laurie Brinklow, University of Prince Edward Island
"This kind of community-engaged research is vital. This book should stand as a model for others who want to make a difference in this world of ours. "
Andrew J Hoffman, University of Michigan
Around the world, rural and urban communities alike face growing socio-economic and environmental challenges Confronted with mounting threats of climate change, food insecurity, resource depletion, and inequality, local leaders are increasingly leveraging place-based social enterprises to reimagine and reshape the future
Collaboratively written by academics and practitioners, this volume offers case studies of place-based social enterprises in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, drawing on the lived experience of social entrepreneurs and community leaders to show the diverse ways the PLACE Framework can be applied to help create more sustainable futures
Archaeology and the Indigenous Peoples of the Maritimes
by Michael Deal
ISBN: 978-1-990445-11-8 • paperback • 384 pp • 6 x 9”
$34 95 • ebook available
A retrospective look at the precontact period of the Maritimes, and how precontact cultures changed as they encountered neighbouring Indigenous peoples and European colonists.
“A valuable addition to the existing body of knowledge and will serve as a great resource to both Mi’kmaw and non-Mi’kmaw readers in the Atlantic Region.”
Roger Lewis, Foreword
In recent decades, the development of Indigenous Archaeology has prompted a shift in how non-Indigenous archaeologists approach the archaeological record, moving toward the inclusion of Indigenous reconstructions of precontact history communicated through oral tradition and traditional practices Drawing mainly on research conducted since the late 1950s, this book surveys the historical perspective, theory, and methodology of maritime archaeology and offers insight on the lives of the Palaeo (Ancient), Archaic (Long Ago), and Woodland (Clay Pot) peoples Looking to provide answers to where the earliest inhabitants of the Maritimes came from, what the area was like when they were there, and how they developed their technology and expanded their populations, Archaeology and the Indigenous Peoples of the Maritimes provides a retrospective look at the precontact period and how precontact cultures changed as they encountered neighbouring Indigenous peoples and finally European colonists
Contents
Acknowledgements
A Comment on Terminology Foreword by Roger Lewis
1 Traditional Context
2 Practising Archaeology in the Maritimes
3 The Why and How Questions
4 Peopling a New Land
5 The Long Ago People
6 The Clay Pot People
7 The Prophecy
References Cited Index
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Inuit and the Moravian Mission in Northern Labrador and Ungava Bay, 1771–1814
2: The Moravian Mission and the HBC, 1814–1842
3: Inuit Interactions with the Moravian Mission, 1842–1863
4: Trade Competition and Expansion, 1863–1898
5: Many Names, Many Relations: Inuit Families North of Hebron, 1868
6: Traditional Inuit Life and Colonial
Interactions, 1870s–1890s
7: The Moravian Mission and the Anglican Church in Ungava Bay and Port Burwell, 1899–1904
8: Inuit Living between Ramah and Killinek, 1904–1908
9: Moravian Mission at Killinek, 1904–1924
10: The HBC Era, 1926–1940s
11: Divergent Government Policy
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Avanimiut
A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador
by Carol Brice-Bennet
revised by Lena Onalik and Andrea Procter
ISBN: 978-1-990445-14-9 • paperback • 416 pp • 6 x 9” $29 95 • ebook available
A historical account of the perseverance, resilience, and strength of Inuit in northernmost Labrador.
“A unique blend of non-fiction, memoir, and narrative storytelling... Avanimiut provides a powerful counter-narrative to colonization.”
Jenn Thornhill Verma, Literary Review of Canada
Called the Northlanders by the Moravian missionaries who sought to colonize them, Avanimiut were Inuit who maintained traditional lifeways, autonomy, and spiritual beliefs in northernmost Labrador Despite the attempts of the Moravian Mission, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the Anglican Church to bring them into their Christian and commercial trading worlds, the Avanimiut retained their independence Avanimiut:
A History of Inuit Independence in Northern Labrador is the story of a people often displaced by relocation who survived and thrived despite the hardships they faced
The first version of Avanimiut, a 1996 report titled “Northlanders,” was commissioned by the Labrador Inuit Association in the context of land claim negotiations, and written by Carol BriceBennett Lena Onalik and Andrea Procter have modified the original manuscript to incorporate historical Inuit writing and interviews, including the Inuit voices that had previously been almost entirely omitted. Avanimiut presents these voices alongside the colonial accounts of Inuit families who continued to live in their ancestral territories of Labrador, providing a glimpse into their lives, families, and relationships
One Man’s Journey
The Mi’kmaw Revival in Ktaqmkuk
by Elder Calvin White
ISBN: 978-1-990445-08-8 • paperback • 194 pp • 6 x 9”
$26.95 • ebook available
The story of the Mi’kmaw movement in Newfoundland, told through the personal recollections of one of its key instigators.
“Reading Elder Calvin White's One Man's Journey is a homecoming.”
Shannon
Webb-Campbell, Atlantic Books Today
“This is a personal story – but one which Calvin White keeps extensive and inclusive, as the process of Mi’kmaw self-determination is presented alongside White’s own biography.”
Joan Sullivan, The Telegram
With a story spanning over seventy years of the life of respected Elder Calvin White, One Man’s Journey weaves personal history with White’s account of the Mi’kmaw movement and his role in the reclamation and restoration of pride in Mi’kmaw culture in Newfoundland
Elder White’s journey began in the forests surrounding his home of Flat Bay, where he learned to fish, hunt, and gather from a group of respected mentors who influenced and inspired him His story recounts how the lessons learned from these valuable moments fueled his later work to spearhead the Mi’kmaw movement throughout the island of Newfoundland, amid the fight for recognition by the provincial and federal governments His words do not shy away from the prejudice and discrimination faced by his people, and they provide a personal account of the history, responsibilities, philosophy, and worldview of his community.
One Man’s Journey is a personal and critical look at the processes that have led to the recognition of Mi’kmaw people in Newfoundland
Contents
Foreword Prologue
1: Early Mentoring
2: Teachings and Skills on the Land Which We Refer to as “The Country”
3: Traditional Ways
4: Young Adulthood
5: Dealing with Demons
6: Changing Times
7: The Movement
8: Similar Issues
9: Learning Curve
10: Entering New Realities
11: Empowerment of the People
12: Issues
13: Flaws
14: Personal Impacts
15: Relationships
16: Something to Think About
Photo Album
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
ISBN 978-1-990445-00-2
paperback with flaps • 318 pp
10 75 x 8 25” • $49 95
TautukKonik | Looking Back
Piusigilauttavut Labradoriup taggâni, 1969–1986 | A Portrait of Inuit life in northern Labrador, 1969-1986
by Candace Cochrane, Andrea Procter, and the Nunatsiavut Creative Group
An inspired collaboration which intertwines photographs and Inuit stories to weave a portrait of life in northern Labrador
Winner of the 2023 Peter Cashin Prize
“The black-and-white photos themselves are part portrait, part documentary, and each shows an interconnectedness between Inuit, land, water and nonhuman animal.”
Erin Morton, Atlantic Books Today
Art / Indigenous Studies
ISBN 978-1-550819-33-5
hardcover • 224 pp
13 x 9 5” • $79 95
October 2022
Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
Chapter III: Miawpukek The Middle River
by Pam Hall and Jerry Evans Mi’kmaq translation
by Ida
Denny
An exploration of art as a form of making and mobilizing knowledge, revealing many ways of knowing that are local and living.
Winner of the 2023 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction
“The series itself has consistently demonstrated legacyworthy content and design and here again fills a gap of tradition, science, know-how, and lore...” Jury, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
Families, Mobility, and Work
edited by Barbara Neis, Christina Murray, and Nora Spinks
An engaging and expansive collection exploring the intersection between family lives and work-related mobility.
Families, Mobility, and Work allows readers to experience and explore many of the challenges, opportunities and effects of diverse forms of work-related mobility through a family-centred lens. Assembling findings from substantial research, rooted primarily in the Canadian context, this expansive collection explores intersections between family lives and diverse types of mobility across multiple populations of workers, regions, and sectors.
Film Studies / Indigenous Studies
Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget | On Inuit Cinema
edited by Mark David Turner
Stories about Inuit cinema, centring on the people involved in its creation.
Shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
Winner of the IPPY Awards, Silver Medal, Performing Arts
“Like a good movie, this book is an impressive piece of collaborative storytelling.”
Atlantic Books Today
“Turner’s book is a landmark in the field.”
Arctic Book Review
ISBN 978-1-990445-04-0
paperback • 512 pp • 6 x 9”
$32.95 • ebook available open access volume available
July 2022
ISBN 978-1-894725-91-0
paperback with flaps • 272pp
7 5 x 9 5” • $34 95 ebook available
ISBN 978-1-990445-01-9
paperback • 352 pp • 6 x 9”
$28 95 • ebook available
Corner Windows and Cul-de-Sacs
The Remarkable Story of Newfoundland’s First Garden Suburb
by C.A. Sharpe and A.J. Shawyer
Grounded in research, the very human story of the creation of Churchill Park and the growth of a city.
Winner of the 2022 Honourable Edward Roberts History Book Award
“A significant work... [this] book stands as a powerful reminder of the classist dimensions of postwar planning as well as the urgent relevance of these issues today.”
Dustin Valen, The Canadian Historical Review
History / Economics / Food Studies
ISBN 978-1-894725-97-2
paperback • 264 pp • 6 x 9”
$26.95 • ebook available
Fishing Measures
A Critique of Desk-Bound Reason
by Daniel Banoub
December 2021
An investigation into the economic, political, and scientific history of the saltfishery in Newfoundland.
Shortlisted, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction 2023
“A fascinating book that will be of interest to historians of Newfoundland, fisheries, and natural resources. ”
Jennifer Silver, Network in Canadian History & Environment
“A historical assessment of Newfoundland’s fisheries... combining fine-grained historical research with Marxist conceptual analysis.”
Michael Fabinyi, AAG Review of Books
Muskrat Falls
How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation
edited by Stephen Crocker and Lisa Moore
A multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political, and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused.
“This searing indictment... of the Muskrat Falls development is a must-read for anyone affected by, or concerned about, the future of Indigenous Peoples, the state, and hydro power, both in Labrador and in Canada generally.”
Daniel Macfarlane
“Muskrat Falls delves deeply and widely into what economically, environmentally and culturally ails the development.”
Joan Sullivan, The Telegram
Folklore / Cultural Studies
Strange Terrain
The Fairy World in Newfoundland
by Barbara Rieti
Thirty years after its original publication, a special anniversary edition of Barbara Rieti’s iconic work.
Winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize, 1993 (now called the Canada Prize)
“A renaissance in fairylore studies...” Folklore Forum
“The first extensive study of belief in fairies in Canada…” Books in Canada
“One of our best modern fairy books.“ Fairies, Folklore and Forteana
ISBN 978-1-894725-94-1
paperback • 300 pp • 6 x 9”
$27.95 • ebook available
July 2021
ISBN 978-1-894725-80-4
paperback • 372 pp • 6 x 9”
$27 95 • ebook available
ISBN 978-1-894725-73-6
paperback • 354 pp • 6 x 9”
$27 95 • ebook available
The Foresters’ Scribe
Remembering the Newfoundland Forestry Companies Through the First World War Letters of Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant John A. Barrett
by Ursula A Kelly
A poignant and comprehensive study of the Newfoundland Forestry Companies of the First World War, as told through letters.
Shortlisted, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction 2021
“ ... a rich depository of primary material, under-pinned by insightful and fresh analysis that deepens our understanding of Newfoundland and Labrador’s experience in World War I.”
Jenny Higgins, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Indigenous Studies / Political Science
ISBN 978-1-894725-69-9
paperback • 212 pp • 6 x 9”
$24.95 • ebook available
October 2020
Voices of Inuit Leadership and SelfDetermination in Canada
edited by David Lough
A broad range of perspectives and voices united in their commitment to understanding what Inuit leadership is, has been, and will be.
Across the pages, a portrait of Inuit leadership for the twentyfirst century emerges. It is visionary and consensual, brutally honest about the past and optimistic for the future It is rooted in ancient cultural traditions, yet focused on a future that will define its political and cultural autonomy on the very principles that underscore that culture. It is determined in its will toward self-determination and resolute in its desire to assume control for the creation of knowledge about itself and its people.
A Long Journey
Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland
by Andrea Procter
The previously untold history of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland, recounted by former students and survivors.
Shortlisted, BMO Winterset Award 2021
Winner, Peter Cashin Prize 2021
Winner, Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing 2021
Winner, Clio Prize (Atlantic) 2021
Winner, NL Book Award for Non-Fiction 2021
Shortlisted, Honourable Edward Roberts History Book Award 2022
Gender Studies / Cultural Studies
Shaped By Silence
Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories
by Rie Croll
The powerful and painful stories of five survivors of Magdalene Laundries in Canada, Ireland, and Australia.
Finalist for the 2020 Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
“Rie Croll’s superbly written and important book… seeks to correct the world’s ignorance about life for girls and women institutionalized in Magdalene Laundries. The clever cruelty behind this system of oppression is shocking and frighteningly parallels the horrors of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. ” Judy Donaldson, for Atlantic Books Today
ISBN 978-1-894725-64-4
paperback • 528 pp • 6 x 9”
$29.95 • ebook available
May 2019
IISBN 978-1-894725-53-8
paperback • 288 pp • 6 x 9”
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ISBN 978-1-778219-36-8
paperback • 286 pp • 5 5 x 8 5”
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In the Shadow of Tungusuak
by Chris Buckley
Published by Brack and Brine
"Buckley laces together a narrative that flows like a braided river across the wild landscape of northern Labrador."
Anders Morley, author of This Land of Snow
"This is the best kind of adventure story, where the internal is mapped against the external, and neither journey is without peril."
Joseph Monninger, author of Eternal on the Water
Chris Buckley's true, first-person narrative of a daring expedition through northern Labrador's Torngat Mountains in 1980
Literary Studies / Indigenous Studies
ISBN 978-1-778219-31-3
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Labrador, A Reader's Guide
by Robin McGrath
Published by Brack and Brine
December 2023
“McGrath's personal story gives this book a spine.“
Joan Sullivan, The Telegram
“A fascinating piece of literary detective work.”
Jean Graham, Northeast Avalon Times
paperback • 270 pp • 5 5 x 8 5”
$22.95 • ebook available
A journey through Labrador literature, led by one of its most passionate readers and most prolific reviewers These pages chart a winding course all the way from the 18th through to the 21st century, paying visits to authors from Nikashant Antane to Arnold Zageris and everywhere between.
Labrador Cinema
by Mark David Turner and Morgen Mills
Published by Brack and Brine
“A visually rich insight into our cinematic history.”
Aimee Chaulk, Them Days
DISTRIBUTED BYMUPRESS
“A fascinating guide to the cinema of Labrador, highlighting the ever-shifting identities, perspectives and preoccupations of the filmmakers who have told its stories. Labrador Cinema is a valuable resource to anyone wanting a thoughtful introduction to the visual record of Labrador and its people.”
Nigel Markham, filmmaker
120 years of Labrador and Labradorians on both sides of the camera: a history in rare and significant images gathered from filmmakers and archives across Europe and North America
Poetry / Lyrics
ISBN: 978-1-778219-30-6
paperback • 186 pp • 9 x 9”
$40 00 • ebook available
June 2024
And You Can't Help But Listen
by Jamie Jackman
Published by Brack and Brine
"Silver Wolf Band presents honest and sincere lyrics."
James
Melanson, Canadian Beats
"Profoundly stunning lyrics"
Maggie McLean, The East
These words carry the music of the Silver Wolf Band And You Can't Help But Listen is a collection of 60 songs and sketches by Jamie Jackman Many are published here for the very first time
DISTRIBUTED BYMUPRESS
ISBN 978-1-778219-34-4
paperback • 80 pp • 4.5 x 7”
$15 00 • ebook available
BringingHome Animals
Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918–1919
A Budgell
ISBN 978-1-894725-54-5 paper $26 95 2018 • ebook available
A Tanner Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec
ISBN 978-1-894725-14-9 paper $24 95 2014 • ebook available
MoccasinTracks
A Memoir of Mi’kmaw Life in Newfoundland
J N Jeddore, Elder
ISBN 978-1-894725-24-8 paper $24 95 2015 • ebook available
Montague Memoirs of a Labrador Trapper
ISBN 978-1-894725-12-5 paper $19 95
ISBN 978-0-919666-96-2 paper $31 95
J C Kennedy
ISBN 978-1-894725-15-6 paper $24 95
• ebook available
FoodFutures
Growing a Sustainable Food System for Newfoundland and Labrador
C Keske
ISBN 978-1-894725-45-3 • paper • $26 95 2018
Island Studies
Agricultural Life in St John’s
H Chaulk Murray
ISBN 978-0-919666-53-5 • paper • $31 95 2002
RoughFood
The Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland
J F Omohundro
ISBN 978-0-919666-82-5 • paper • $31 95 1994
PlacePeripheral
Place-Based Development in Rural, Island, and Remote Regions
K Vodden, R Gibson, & G Baldacchino
ISBN 978-1-894725-25-5 • paper • $29 95 2015 ebook available
RemoteControl
Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions
G Baldacchino, R Greenwood, & L Felt
ISBN 978-1-894725-08-8 • paper • $29 95 2009
Livingonthe Edge
The Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
L Felt & P R Sinclair
ISBN 978-0-919666-84-9 • paper • $27 95 1995
SweatEquity
Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland, 1920–1974
C A Sharpe & A J Shawyer
ISBN 978-1-894725-34-7 paper $28 95 2016 • ebook available
Life Story of Edgar House
D House & A House
ISBN: 978-1-894725-26-2 paper $26 95
Creatinga University
The Newfoundland Experience
S H Riggins & R Buchanan
ISBN 978-1-894725-52-1 paper $26 95 2019 • ebook available
An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Travel Writings
S Jamieson & A Thareau
ISBN 978-1-894725-13-2 paper $29 95 2013
James K Hiller
TheDemocracy Cookbook
Recipes to Renew Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador
A Marland & L Moore
ISBN 978-1-894725-44-6 paper $25 00 2017 • ebook available
TheEarthisFlat
An Exposé of the Globularist Hoax by Dr Leo Charles Ferrari, President, The Flat Earth Society
D Eso & K Burns
ISBN 978-1-894725-59-0 paper $24 95 2019 • ebook available
Resettlement
Uprooting and Rebuilding Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Beyond
I Côté & Y Pottie-Sherman
ISBN 978-1-894725-68-2 paper $25 95 2020 • ebook available
U A Kelly & M C Forsyth Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador ISBN
ISBN 978-1-894725-40-8 paper $28 95
Mistressofthe BlueCastle
The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller
V S Hallett
ISBN 978-1-894725-49-1 • paper • $24 95 2018 • ebook available
PursuingEquality
ISBN 978-1-894725-23-1 • paper • $24 95 2015
L Kealey
ISBN 978-0-919666-77-1 • paper • $27 95 1993
C Palmer, E Groom & J Brandon
Refugees From the Third Reich and Newfoundland Immigration Policy 1906–1949
G Bassler
ISBN: 978-0-919666-75-7 • paper • $27 95
