You are invited to a very special boat launch - The Alphabet Fleet - the latest book by Newfoundland and Labrador author Maura Hanrahan. Flanker Press - the publisher - describes the work this way.
In 1898 a political firestorm surrounded the creation of Newfoundland’s Alphabet Fleet. But before long these coastal boats became a beloved part of the fabric of life in Newfoundland and Labrador. These ships carried bright-eyed young teachers to their first outport assignments. They brought wedding dresses to excited brides and Christmas parcels and letters to eager hands. They carried people home from city hospitals and the dead to be buried in family plots. Through crew and passenger recollections, this book brings the Alphabet Fleet to life. It also vividly describes the heroics and disasters associated with these legendary vessels.
Maura Hanrahan is the author of several books, including Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster. Her book Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster is a Canadian Bestseller. Tsunami won the 2005 Heritage and History Award and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rogers Cable Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. Hanrahan is also the author of the East Coast favourite, The Doryman, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Heritage and History Award. She is a past winner of the Lawrence Jackson Writing Award.
The book will be available for purchase. The author will be present to read from and sign her work. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please contact Flanker Press at 709-739-4477.
This special launch takes place:
Thursday, September 27, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Railway Coastal Museum (495 Water Street West)
Great Christmas Gift......
7 comments:
Sue - Congratulations I hear you are the Primary speaker at the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Pension convention sharing the stage with Senator Carstairs.
I thank you - they are important - and their issues significant. I am looking forward to it.
Thats our Sue ,Doing us Proud.!!!
They brought Newfoundland fishermen to Labrador, at subsidized "fishermen's tickets", to seize trap births and salmon spots that Labrador fishermen had handed down for generations.
Sue, I know the Convention is being held at the Battery on Tuesday of next week, but I am not sure of the time. Could you please post it for me please?
Sandwich Bayman ,sounds like confederation to me bud.My familys home was sold to an American couple when the fishery Collapsed.My familys investment went down the drain,and everything that my family had worked for overtime had disappeared .Im sorry sandwich.
"fishermen's tickets" this was happening when the Labrador was considered a territory.Im not down playing that travisty in anyway,but how can you compare that injustice to another.
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/IDD-1-73-1595/politics_economy/cod_economy/
Two wrongs do not make one right.I think that Newfoundlad and Labrador has suffered enough.I hope and prey for a better tomorrow .
By the way sandwich,are you still in the bay or have you been "Displaced" as well.
Welcome to Canadas New World Order.I hope your enjoying what they like to call Progress.
Gee, USSR, thanks for your touching sympathy, you're all heart. Too bad your sense of fair play extends only to yourself. A couple of things need to be pointed out Labrador was never officially a territory - it has just been treated like a warehouse by 'the province'. Still is as a matter of fact. And what does confederation have to do with it? That subsidy was from Nfld I do believe - incidentally after Joey's PROVINCIAL resettlement plan those subsidies were refused to the people who were resettled to Sandwich Bay so they could go back to their home places to fish but Islanders still received it to come to the very same fishing grounds. Sorry, nothing to do with Confederation which Labradorians supported overwhelmingly and I'd say still do, only more so.
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