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Comme son oncle, le capitaine Pierre Desury, Joseph Conan aurait pu mener une carrière de capitaine terre-neuvas jusqu'à l'âge de la retraite. Les événements extérieurs, et peut-être aussi l'absence d'une véritable vocation, en décideront autrement. Nous sommes sous le Second Empire, la grande pêche à Terre-neuve est florissante. Le capitaine Conan, originaire de Saint-Brieuc, vient de quitter un armement local. Il entre au service d'un armateur de Pléneuf, Mathieu Rubin de Rays qui expédie lui aussi pour la grande pêche. Le capitaine décide de reporter sur un carnet toute sa correspondance professionnelle à destination de son armateur mais aussi de collègues et de courtiers. Ce sont ces lettres qui sont transcrites et commentées dans cet ouvrage. Elles nous permettent de suivre, durant deux campagnes, un capitaine dans ses diverses activités de navigation, de pêche et de négoce, lorsqu'il s'agit de vendre la morue à Marseille et de chercher des cargaisons pour le retour en Bretagne. Survient la guerre de Crimée. Le brick Saint-Brieuc doit se reconvertir dans le commerce international. Son capitaine, Joseph Conan, se lance dans la navigation au long cours, cherche de nouveaux frets, se frotte à d'autres catégories de négociants. Un premier voyage à Alexandrie est suivi de deux campagnes à Rio de Janeiro et à Montevideo. Joseph Conan relate cette expérience nouvelle, évoque les arcanes du milieu des affaires dans les ports, les chausse-trapes et les malversations. En 1857, de retour d'Amérique du Sud, Joseph Conan abandonne la navigation. En 1862, il tente de participer à la grande aventure islandaise à Paimpol et s'associe avec un armateur local. C'est sur cette unique campagne de pêche à Islande que s'achève le carnet de Joseph Conan qui se retire définitivement dans sa maison de Saint-Brieuc.

Economics --- History --- Terre-Neuve --- Second Empire --- Correspondance --- commerce --- pêche

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Newfoundlanders have long and lustily sung their folksongs, and the tradition remains strong today. Despite modern influences, the old songs persist, mixed with new songs that are composed to record the events of our time. This is the first major collection of Newfoundland folksongs compiled and edited by native Newfoundlanders. It concentrates on songs of local composition largely ignored by earlier collectors and presents a significant number of songs never before published.For most of the last decade Lehr and Best have been travelling around the island recording the voices and favourite songs of anyone, young and old, who would perform. Recordings took place in family kitchens, on stage heads, and in trap stores while the singer knitted twine or repaired lobster pots, aboard ships at anchor or en route to some small deserted harbour. Humming engines, blowing oilstoves, or clattering supper dishes provided accompaniment.The 120 songs collected here by Lehr and Best have been transcribed by Pamela Morgan and illustrated by Elly Cohen. Some recall the distant past of a long and rich seafaring tradition; others tell of such recent tragedies as the displacement of outport people and the sinking of the Ocean Ranger. The selection represents the state of the folk-song in Newfoundland today; in some part it documents what is lost and forgotten, but it also celebrates what has survived, and thrives.

Folk songs, English --- Folk music --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- English ballads and songs --- English folk songs --- Newfoundland --- Newfoundland and Labrador. --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Neufundland --- Terre-Neuve --- Insel

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This book offers a selection of papers by Olaf U. Janzen concerning the maritime history of eighteenth-century Newfoundland, reprinted from various publications and assembled here in chronological order. It explores themes of imperial dominance expressed by both the British and French empires in the struggle for sovereignty that ensconced the two nations. The Newfoundland fishery in the wake of the Treaty of Utrecht was also source of tension between British and French fishermen due to the fishery's lucrative status. In attempt to integrate Newfoundland's maritime history into the wider context of the North Atlantic world it examines the struggles of France as their maritime trade went into decline; the dominance of the British Royal Navy on the Atlantic Ocean; the struggle of indigenous Canadians to migrate to Newfoundland; and the efforts of America during the War of Independence to target the fishery when vulnerable. It consists of an introduction, twelve chapters exploring pertinent themes, and an appendix containing reprinted oil paintings of British artist Francis Holman depicting a naval engagement of 7-8 July 1777 involving numerous vessels.

Fish trade --- Fish industry --- Fisheries trade --- Fisheries --- Seafood industry --- History --- Great Britain. --- England and Wales. --- צי הבריטי --- Newfoundland and Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Newfoundland

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How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations, of opposing histories and identities. For this woman, whose sense of a unified identity is so tenuous that she even writes under two names, writing memoirs becomes the way to bring together the diverse strands of her

Écrivains canadiens-anglais --- Authors, Canadian (English) --- Authors, Canadian --- Buss, Helen M. --- Enfance et jeunesse. --- Childhood and youth. --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland and Labrador --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Newfoundland

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Despite the relative obscurity surrounding the earliest English settlements in Newfoundland, the documents in this volume show that they were neither unimportant, nor, ultimately, unsuccessful. Unlike the sites of other English colonies founded in the New World in the early 17th century, Newfoundland had an already-established economic base - the flourishing fishery for cod in which European fishermen had engaged for over a century. Settlement, from its beginnings in 1610, was closely tied to the exploitation of the fishery. But fishing was not the only occupation; the early settlers searched for iron and tried to grow food, to make glass and soap, and to establish a trade in furs with the indigenous Beothuk Indians. Keenly aware of their new and often hostile environment, the colonists recorded their impressions of the island's geography, climate, resources, and people, as well as their own struggle to survive. Some of their earliest letters are printed in this collection. In the third decade of the century, the first wave of settlers sent by the Newfoundland company were followed by a second despatched by independent proprietors: the Welshmen, William Vaughan, the courtier, Lord Baltimore, and the lord deputy of Ireland, Lord Falkland. Their correspondence and the writings of their publicists reveal not only their idiosyncratic reasons for involvement in Newfoundland, but also place the island and its fishery firmly in the context of their economic and strategic significance to England. In the works of Richard Whitbourne, reprinted here for the first time, are to be found the most complete statements of the value and practice of the fishery and the international trade in fish, together with vividly detailed descriptions of the island with which a lifetime connection had bred a loving obsession.

British --- History --- Sources --- Newfoundland and Labrador --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- History&delete& --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Newfoundland --- Sources. --- British - Newfoundland and Labrador - History - 17th century - Sources --- Newfoundland and Labrador - History - Sources