Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Preface xix
6. Introduction 3
7. Tractarianism and Bishop Edward Feild 28
8. St John's: “These Ignorant and Excited Fishmongers” 50
9. Conception Bay: An “Encroaching People” 75
10. Northeast Coast: A People “Possessed with a Feeling of Their Own Importance” 99
11. Labrador: A People of “Unhappy Variance” 149
12. Placentia Bay: A People with “a Vigorous Self-Activating Culture” 178
13. South Coast: A People “Attending the Church Service and the Worship of the Methodists Indiscriminately” 228
14. The Western Shore and the West Coast: A People Who “Do Just as They Please” 263
15. Conclusion 293
16. Notes 303
17. Bibliography 379
18. Index 403