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Après que la Révolution et les guerres de l'Empire eurent interrompu pendant vingt-cinq ans l'exercice des droits des pêcheurs français à Terre-Neuve, les Français y sont retournés en grand nombre et y ont trouvé une situation différente de celle qu'ils avaient connue jadis. Les habitants de l'île s'étaient établis dans les havres le long du « French Shore », la partie du littoral nord-ouest de l'île sur laquelle ils avaient joui d'un droit qu'ils considéraient comme « exclusif ». Les Français de retour toléreront ces habitants, et durant l'hivernage, période où les conditions du traité d'Utrecht les obligeaient à rentrer en France, ils confieront la garde de leur matériel à ces insulaires, même si, selon eux, ils se trouvaient là illégalement. À partir de cette époque, les récits de voyage et autres évocations de la vie à Terre-Neuve se font nombreux. Ils traitent en particulier de l'évolution de Terre-Neuve dans le cadre légal engendré par le nouveau parlement institué en 1832. Peu à peu, cette situation va amener la France et la Grande-Bretagne à entamer des négociations diplomatiques. L'anthologie composée par Ronald Rompkey restitue une Terre-Neuve construite au fil des années dans les écrits français, fruit des souvenirs d'innombrables voyageurs – officiers de marine, diplomates, scientifiques, journalistes et autres visiteurs – qui ont interprété la région et son peuple au profit du public français.
History --- Voyages --- Terre-Neuve --- XIXe siècle --- récit --- anthologie
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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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Newfoundland and Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Newfoundland and Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland and Labrador. --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Newfoundland
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Pendant près de deux siècles après le Traité d'Utrecht, de 1713 à 1904, la France envoya ses flottes de pêche à Terre-Neuve. Dès 1854, cette présence saisonnière fut encadrée par une représentation consulaire française sur l'île, une succession de consuls, vice-consuls et agents consulaires dont l'avant dernier était Charles Riballier des Isles. Les correspondances de Riballier des Isles, éditées par Ronald Rompkey, constituent un complément de sources précieux pour la connaissance des relations tendues entre la France et l'Angleterre à Terre-Neuve. D'autre part, elles nous renseignent sur l'organisation de la pêche et les relations entre les saisonniers français et la population locale. Elles représentent aussi une source précieuse pour connaître la vie quotidienne à Terre-Neuve dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle et les activités et responsabilités de la fonction consulaire.
History --- XIXe siècle --- France --- Angleterre --- Terre-Neuve --- dépêche --- Riballier des Isles
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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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The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a mythologized place that resonates with tragic adventure, polar expeditions and Grand Banks fishing; a real and imagined geography with an incredible artistic output that calls for critical discussion. This book examines the diversity of this province's literature and culture, taking into consideration the expertise of scholars and writers who have first-hand knowledge of its unique context. Chapters on history, travel, fiction, autobiography, poetry, theatre, storytelling, filmmaking, and the visual arts provide an up-to-date survey acros
Canadian literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Newfoundland and Labrador. --- Newfoundland --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
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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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Between 1577 and 1660 Newfoundland emerged from relative obscurity to become the centre of a booming and valued industry, the site of one of England's first colonies, and a place of such strategic importance that the English government could not afford to ignore it. From the time of its discovery in the late fifteenth century, the fishermen of Western Europe made annual fishing voyages to Newfoundland. Over a hundred years later, in 1610, the island became the site of England's second permanent colony in North America. The conflict which began at that time between settlers and fishermen has characterized much of the island's history.This volume examines the two themes of settlement and the fishery. The value of the fishery has been accepted readily enough, but until now no systematic analysis has been made of the industry's growth during its first great period of expansion in the last quarter of the sixteenth century or of its position in the commerce of the ports of western England. Such an analysis is presented in this volume. The author has used customs' records and local port records, summarizing her finds in tables and graphs. While the figures are incomplete and the conclusions drawn from them necessarily tentative, this book is nevertheless an important step in charting the development of England's first transatlantic trade.The earliest attempts to colonize the unsympathetic island of Newfoundland are the least known part of the story of English settlement in North America. Now, thanks to the use of new documentation, in particular a substantial collection of papers relating to the Newfoundland Company, it can be argued that both the company's colony at Cupid Cove and the independent settlements which were its offshoots were far more serious and long-lived enterprises than has often been though. They formed a vital part of the colonial experiences and experiments of the seventeenth century.The story of English activity in Newfoundland sheds further light on the expansion of England. Both the fishing voyages and the first settlements were originally private ventures. But as the European rivalries in the New World continued and as mercantilist theories made colonies increasingly valuable assets, so Newfoundland's importance as a training ground for sailors and as a strategic element in the control of the north Atlantic became more obvious. By the mid-seventeenth century Newfoundland had ceased to be simply a private concern. Somewhat slowly, somewhat reluctantly, the government moved in.
Fish trade --- Fish industry --- Fisheries trade --- Fisheries --- Seafood industry --- History --- Newfoundland and Labrador --- Great Britain --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Newfoundland & Labrador --- Newfoundland --- Commerce --- Colonization. --- E-books --- History.
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"This work is a social history of religion in colonial Newfoundland and Labrador that focuses on the career of Edward Feild, Anglican bishop from 1844 to 1876, as a way of exploring the interaction between religious authority and popular spirituality in the context of British colonialism. Feild was an acolyte of Tractarianism (a movement of High Church Anglicans that originated at Oxford University in the 1830s) and, during his lengthy tenure as bishop, attempted to introduce Tractarian theology and practices into the colony. He met considerable resistance from the local population, however, many of whom adhered to more Evangelical forms of Protestantism and resented the imposition of the colonial church hierarchy on their patterns of worship and religious life. This study endeavours to explain the popular resistance to Feild's initiatives and the reasons for, and consequences of, his failures. In so doing, Hollett challenges the traditional view of Bishop Field's stint as bishop of Newfoundland, which has tended to mphasise his successes. The study is structured geographically, with chapters devoted to each of the regions of Newfoundland and Labrador where Feild engaged in missionary activities. The argument is supported by extensive archival research, including against-the-grain readings of official church publications, periodicals, correspondence, and other sources, allowing for a detailed and nuanced analysis of the local controversies and conflicts from the perspective of the parishioners in each region. At the same time, Bishop Feild's experience in Newfoundland is part of a much larger story about religion and the British Empire, and as such it has relevance beyond Newfoundland. It should be of interest not only to historians of Newfoundland but also to historians of religion (especially of Anglicanism and Protestantism) and historians of the British Empire."--
Bishops --- Oxford movement --- Mouvement d'Oxford --- Évêques --- History --- Histoire --- Feild, Edward, --- Church of England --- Newfoundland and Labrador --- Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador --- Religion
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